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Artist Statement
MFA Thesis Show, Savannah College of Art and Design
Galerie Lumiere, Savannah, GA
Inside this room, I have created a continuous, never-ending photograph.
It has no beginning and no end. Like life, it is not contained in
these supposed parameters.
The subjects are sometimes alone, sometimes with others, sometimes dissected, sometimes overlapping, repeating, blank, etc. It is a narrative that has no focal point, no real measure, so that it is like a dream or myth- a half-reality: the reality one's subjectivity creates on it's own. . It is, what I have coined, a lifecycle- one cycle of an eternal allegory.
Photographing with the Holga, a simple, plastic camera, creates a deep hazy image which is both romantic and terrifying. The imagery is about being home, being attached, being safe, but also about being left vulnerable to the wild world, beckoning and demanding my attention. The image, in one cycle of my journey, examines the relationships between people- are we alone on our perspective journeys? Do we go through life together? Or do we simply exist next to each other? My subjects, at the same time a reflection of myself and a projection of themselves, are both intimate and distanced, alone but together. The fluidity of the photograph gives it structure while the discontinuity in imagery gives it chaos. There is a balance of all things: a balance of intimacy and tension, of chaos and fluidity, of mystery and awareness. This all reflects my philosophy of life.
The work has become a reflection of myself searching for meaning through photography. To reference Susan Sontag- Photography has made me a tourist in my own life.
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