Joha Harrison & Jillian Knox: What Matter’s
Joha Harrison is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between photography, abstract painting, and mixed media. His work begins with observation and expands through material. Handmade paper, texture, and gestures, transform lived moments into emotional landscapes. Across mediums, he explores memory, place, and perception, creating images that are felt before they are fully understood.
Intended as the first installment of her currently untitled family documentary project, the images displayed in this exhibition were shot over a three-day period at the 2025 Knox Family Reunion based in Central Florida. After not physically seeing her extended family in over a decade, and making her first trip as an adult to the South, Knox was accepted and embraced with an abundance of love. Quickly, this trip became her pilgrimage, and her main goal became capturing the universal spirit inside us all that triumphs over the distance and time that grows between loved ones.
In these images her appreciation for the South grows as it is the landscape in which her family stood firm ground, grew its roots and multiplied. She learned that Southern history is the land, soil, air, and the people that tend to it. It is also the history of the Knox family. “God, Family, Unity” is the chosen slogan seen printed on every reunion t-shirt. She observed the family tree that grew deliberate and intently through decades. To understand the lineage that she belonged to, she sat back with her camera and waited for the moments in between the agenda, food, and festivities. The moments where her cousins thought no one was looking, when her elders took a breather and exhaled -the moments where they could just be.