Spring Skin: artist statement
This series is a product of a difficult past few years, which up until recently I have felt a sense of revitalization, a release, a shedding of a weight. That is what these pieces deal with—a freedom or release from an overbearing constraint. Spring is a time when most people feel a sense of release from winter, which is a constraint that we all can share and a sense of relief we can all appreciate. We all have something that is weighing on us, whether it is small or large, it is necessary to free ourselves from these burdens or they continue to deteriorate our sense of being.
In “Spring Skin” it is a shedding of clothing, or a winter skin, this winter skin posing as the burdens and constraints of life, and a renewal or revitalization of self—spring. I wanted the pieces to display a lack of constraint by not limiting itself to any convention—the people in the photos are in nature, naked, yet still wearing shoes. This is giving the sense of nature—t he naturalist necessity of humanity, but at the same time the shoes show how we are still human and therefore inevitably flawed.
What I want the audience to take away from my work is a sense of escape as they look at the pieces. I want them to mentally travel and imagine themselves in a place of freedom from their own burdens, even if it is temporary.
The images would be framed and grouped in a series in the following order. I feel this is the most logical order and flows smoothly from one image to the next. However they don’t need to be view in any particular order. I want the experience the views have with my pieces to be the least restricting and free to jump from one to the other in any order.
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