Awakening Project Statement
The photomontage images created for the Awakening series were created as a result of the prolonged isolation and persistent anxiety I experienced during COVID confinement. I rarely went out to shoot new images. My only outlet was to dive deep into my photographic archives and revisit the many images that didn’t quite fit into any of my established projects. I found myself spontaneously and unconsciously associating and merging disparate images that previously seemed to have no relationship to each other. The resulting photomontages that make up this series were created from found images such as advertisements, posters, murals, and graffiti, as well as landscapes, street images, and candid portraits. These experiments resulted in images that contain subjects in various states of transformation, realization and awakening.
“Photomontage is an artistic practice that has endured almost since the birth of photography itself.At its most basic level, the photomontage is a single image combined of two or more original and/or existing images. The artist in question produces a montage in order to encourage their audience to think about the relationship between the grouped images. The photomontage will be achieved by cutting and pasting, while original or found photographs can often be placed next to non-photographic images (such as written text and even patterns and shapes). A “new” image might also be created by altering an original photograph through tearing and cutting. In every instance of this artistic approach the viewer is required, be that consciously or unconsciously, to make sense of an original artwork composed through image associations.” – The Art Story
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Awakening #1
Woman Dissipating
Woman Taking Stock
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