Headlands’ 2025–2026 Graduate Fellows Exhibition ‘Welcome In This Continuous Loop of Transformation’ opened on Sunday, June 28, at Headlands.

Featuring new work by Josephine Devanbu, Emily Harter, Jonah Reenders, Eleanor Scholz O’Leary, and bryant terry, the exhibition explores transformation through photography, animation, data visualization, and multimedia installation.

In moments of hardship, we are sensitive to the ongoing movements and transformations around us. All stays in motion, even when we want to press pause. We step out into nature to seek a moment of peace, but are met with the chaos of the natural world. We inhale to hold our breath, and exhale to see everything that has changed before our eyes. Landscapes shift, explosions erupt, materials transform, babies are born, and we find ourselves in this continuous loop of transformation.

The 2025-2026 Headlands Graduate Fellows welcome transformation and movement in their practice. Jonah Reenders’s photographs study the landscape of Headlands, documenting what once was and what remains as it continues its unstoppable transformation. Emily Harter’s animation evokes the past by warping the feelings of comfort and familiar repetition associated with classic cartoons. Through movement and making, Josephine Devanbu’s multi-media practice transforms abandoned materials while exploring unfulfilled yearning. Eleanor Scholz O’Leary’s work visualizes a collection of data from her first months of parenthood, creating records of life taking on a new form. bryant terry reframes every-day objects as portals into Black cultural memory and possibility.

All these artists’ works remind us that transformation isn’t linear. A simple seed becomes a dense fractal of branches and leaves as time marches on.

     – Shirin Makaremi

Photo credit: Tom Ide