About the Series:
The Light Between
In this evolving body of work, Jessie Chaney continues her poetic investigation into forgotten and transitional spaces—those marked by time, abandonment, and the quiet residue of human presence. While earlier works in Jessie’s ongoing series, Memory of a Space, drew our gaze to the ruins and relics of places left behind, The Light Between shifts our focus inward—toward the spaces within, the shape of shadows leading to light, and the tender imprint of stillness. Walls speak. Cracks expand. Shadows stretch across surfaces like memories emerging. Here, light is not simply illumination, but revelation—uncovering where time has softened edges, where silence has settled, and where presence lingers in absence. These images play with the tension between grief and grace, between what is held in shadow and what is revealed by light.
There’s a divinity in the in-between—a discomfort that holds both mystery and meaning. The photographs invite us to consider what’s left behind, what we carry unknowingly, and what is felt but unseen. The lens becomes not just a tool of documentation, but a way of seeing—a mirror reflecting the inner landscape of a season marked by transition.
The Light Between is symbolic of this moment in the artist’s life. It is a meditation on presence, a quiet reckoning with the edges of experience. Held by shadow and led by light, these works inhabit the space in between—where memory meets emotion, where stillness meets revelation, and where stories wait in the silence to be seen.
As Leonard Cohen wrote, “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Jessie Chaney’s work shows us that those cracks—those quiet imperfections—are where the real mysteries live.