Statement 2005
In my art I look for inspiration all around me. I take in my family, friends, media, my environment, and myself. I look to artists such as Man Ray and Eugene Meatyard for their expressive portraiture and even artists of other mediums such as Van Gough and Degas to feed my artistic energies. My moods tend to change like most young females�, and I inspire to describe those deep emotions through expression, composition, and lighting.
When I capture a moment, it is my wish for the audience to experience what the subject is feeling. Portraits say so much to me, and when I expose myself and other models to the (sometimes) harsh eyes of an audience, I can hopefully provide insight to my life. My work tends to capture human figures in an artificial environment, portraying a wide range of sentiments. The need to free oneself from the boundaries of their own flesh and this seemingly �plastic� world we live in; the desire to prove that a person is not who they appear to be on paper; and the roller coaster of life are subjects that appeal to me as an artist. Issues of femininity may play a small role in some of my photographs, but I predominately look simply for intensity as direction.
Working in color, black and white, and mixed mediums, I primarily work with 35 mm film which gives me the freedom to move around my subject and explore different compositions. On occasion I feel myself emerging from the confines of a flat medium and moving towards two- and three-dimensional works so that I can unite two different, conflicting ideas into one piece. Colored lights and their projected rainbow on various objects are also a progressing direction for my artistic mind. I feel my work evolving around not only portraiture or figures, but of life itself. Life as a woman, as a child, a student, an amateur, and as a lost soul feed the fire within me to create art that I hope will forever inspire.
