'Reflection'

'REFLECTION'

'REFLECTION'

Artist Statement

Reflection has many meanings.

Reflection may be literal—a physical likeness.

Reflection may be thoughtful, looking both back and forward, considering the past and meditating on the present to guide us in the future.

What we see in art is our personal interpretation translated via our own individual values, knowledge, context and experience. With photography, meaning is a combination of what is projected by the subject, how the image is captured, the context in which it is presented, and the personal interpretation of the viewer.

As words are a vehicle of communicating in a conversation, art is a fragile means of communicating and sharing an experience in which meaning resides. The form representing the subject may be passive, fragile and dispensable, whereas the experiences associated with the piece are key to its meaning.

‘REFLECTION’ uses diverse experimentation and alternative photographic processes to create an experience—to visually communicate via a range of processes presented in layers, representing the many layers that reflect who we are including our emotions, states of mind, and connections to elements in our environment that bring life, significance and, therefore, context to our lives. These layers determine how we project ourselves, and how we are perceived.

Images are separated by acrylic layers, representing the fragility of glass and the individual elements that collectively define us. Although having relevance on their own, together they create a new message reflected back to the viewer. This is multi-layered and in constant flux from one moment to the next.

‘REFLECTION’ incorporates visual anchors, personal to the subject, that provide boundaries to the visual space encouraging the eyes to rest, move around and inspect elements in each of the moments making up the piece as a whole. Presented in a salon style including three different size individual pieces, focus is encouraged to move around the X-Y axis as well as in and out along the Z axis.

The piece integrates movement as the representation of a journey’s fluidity, form in the genre of self as subject, color of grounding, change and hope, and elements symbolizing the impressions and outside forces impacting the subject’s journey.