A painterly use of photography
Cate McQuaid write in The Boston Globe; "In her series 'Drawn to Light,' Bruins makes jazzy collages from bits of cut-up slide film, which she has exposed and chemically processed to derive a soft, smoky palette....
"A century ago, photographers sought to re-create paint's materiality, making brush strokes in the darkroom. In Bruins's work film comes full circle, just as it fades in the face of digital photography. It becomes the material.''