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“When light falls over a yellow flower and brightens it like the sun or the evening light transforms a white sheet hanging outside into the evening sky, blue with shadows, I want to capture it. I appreciate the way light can change something to enhance its colors or to make it joyous.
The sum of all colors of light creates white. My obsession with color and light is summed up by this mysterious “color” white. To me, white is unrealistic. One can never obtain pure white. As a painter one never uses pure white but must always must add a little bit of color to make it look real. My eyes and my camera are drawn to delicate, pure, light. Sometimes there is a stroke of luck and white appears in reality, clean and pure. When I see a splash of color and white, I feel lucky that I can capture something so beautiful, so perfect and pure made by chance.
The magic is in the fact that they are in real life; they are accidentally perfect. My series will be of photographs in which white plays a predominate role and a splash of color creates a perfect balance between blinding fantasy, and a touch of reality. “ Florence Italy, 2012 Shot on Nikon d750 50mm lens
Film and Facebook
A project from 10 years ago during my film studies in Florence, Italy. It was the beginning of being always online. I find it fascinating as a photography and philosophy time capsule, a fledgling realization during a time when Facebook was for college kids and party photos.
Artist statement, Spring 2012
“The intention of this project is to show the difference between reality and digital fantasy. It is personal challenge for myself to find reality. I crave physical socialization and real conversation. We sit in our rooms on the computer socializing with people that aren’t physically with us. I believe this is a very real social problem in the modern world. We are afraid to live. We are so comfortable in our own digital world we are missing the physical world around us. We are forgetting how to speak, to love, to interact with each other.
Through the use of film photography, an actual physical art form I am exploring the real world. I am comparing the beauty of film to a digital Facebook page that represents the person. The black and white photograph is representative of the person I know or met, and the Facebook photograph is how they choose to be represented online.”
