Poet Jeffery Beam
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From reviews of Daedalus Landed Here: Poetic Views - Earthy Travels (featuring photographs, texts, and poems from travels in Italy and Southern France)

Viewing Jeffery Beam's "Daedalus Landed Here: Poetic Views - Earthy Travels" is a little like taking a crash course in art, creative writing, European history, and the wisdom of the ancients, except classes were never this interesting. Pairing beautiful photographs with exquisite poems and narratives rich with historical and personal feelings, Beam guides us through 30 years of travels in Italy and France- through ancient towns, gardens, churches, and countryside. Viewed together, they recount a story—each photograph unique and significant about that place; that moment in time. Beam has frequently collaborated with other artists in his works, but this time he collaborates with himself. An accomplished Hillsborough-based writer, he has turned to re-visioning with the camera's eye what his soul translates through his pen. In this case, the subject is his travel. He explains, "Steven Forrest, the astrologer, once told me in a reading that my work and my spiritual development would grow most through travel. His perception has proven true, and although I don't get to travel much, when I do, I take it as an opportunity to absorb as much scholarship and visual inspiration as I can."
—Through This Lens Gallery, Durham, NC October - November 2006

Email: jeffbeam@email.unc.edu
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Last updated: August 20, 2008