The Deconstructed Self:

Photographic works by Natalie Christensen

October 5-October 3, 2026

Opening Reception, October 9—5 p.m.-7 p.m.

John A. Day Gallery

Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts

University of South Dakota, Vermillion

Natalie Christensen has spent nearly a decade photographing the spaces most people walk past. Parking lots, adobe walls, empty courtyards baking in the New Mexico sun. A former psychotherapist turned photographer, she found herself drawn not to the majestic landscapes surrounding her but to the overlooked and the banal, spaces charged with the psychological symbolism of a self in the middle of changing. Certain motifs keep returning: pools, clouds, geometry, and the incidental objects of everyday life, each carrying more weight than it first appears. Natalie traces the unexpected convergence of photography and identity, and asks what it means to find yourself in the places you least expected to look.