David White, Immersion

September 12 – October 7, 2026
Artist’s reception on Saturday, September 12 from 4-7pm.

LightBox Photographic Gallery & Fine Printing
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, Oregon 97103
(503) 468-0238
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 12 pm to 5 pm

Immersion opens with an artist’s reception on Saturday, September 12 from 4-7pm. Please join us!

“The Cascade Mountains of Oregon experience time on a different scale than humans. Humans come and go in a few decades, mountain ranges come and go at the speed of continental drift. After millions of years of tectonic movement and volcanic activity and erosion, the central Cascade Mountains underlying Mt. Jefferson and the Three Sisters Mountains are a fractured, porous sponge soaking up rain and snow where it slowly trickles down to a vast underground body of very slowly moving water. In places that tremendous reservoir spills over and emerges as roaring spring-fed creeks like Olallie Creek in the McKenzie River watershed. After thousands of years immersed underground, this pure, pristine water creates an ecological environment that is unique. The water in this creek is crystal clear and tinged blue due to the lack of impurities. Relatively immune to weather, the Olallie Creek never floods, never dries out, never freezes and always flows at 40°F., providing conditions that never change for the plants and animals that call this home.

This exhibition is the result of soaking myself in this dynamic, interconnected web of coexistent flora and fauna that survive in comfortable equilibrium in this compact area. This study is limited to the last 200 yards of this mile-long stream just before it merges with the McKenzie River. It is steep – no longer a creek, not quite a waterfall, but a steady, roaring tumble over rocks and under fallen trees that generates a mist that keeps everything above and below the waterline in a steady state of immersion.”

– David White

Complete show info is on the LightBox website, http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/. LightBox also features work from The Guild at LightBox consisting of Jim Fitzgerald, Jody Miller, Julie Moore, Marc McVey, Rachel Wolf, Kathy Radie, Michael Puff, Loren Nelson and Nicholas Dill. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive, hours Wed. – Sat., 12 – 5:00pm