Mary Carothers is an Associate Professor of Fine Art at University of Louisville, Kentucky. Her work has been exhibited at venues including CEPA (Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art) Buffalo, Atlanta College of Art, and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. She has been published internationally and has received grants from the Warhol Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Council, the Johnson Foundation, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Carothers received her BFA from Pratt Institute and her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Artist’s Statement
"This photograph was made on February 14, 2006, at the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. Engaged on this day, I spotted these six trees standing proudly at the top of a hillside. Relating the line up to the family I come from, a group portrait stood before me. My father- the architect, my mother- a small woman and I, the youngest of four children, am closest to the brother just one year older than myself."