ARTIST STATEMENT

I come from a demographic of young women too smart to believe anything we read in Cosmo, but foolish enough to buy it anyway. Self-assured in many avenues of life, intimate relationships tend to pose a more awkward set of expectations and compromises. Each of us bringing a unique set of experiences, we embark into a world bizarre and disconcerting, as we search for the one legend we still half-heartedly believe in; love.

The image chosen for this year’s exhibition is an excerpt from a larger narrative. The series, Vulnerable Silences, tells the story of a young woman’s coming of age, through a non-linear storyline. Amongst portraits are psychological landscapes, constructed to reveal her relationship with a changing world. 

Images externalize the anxiety and alienation that results when intimacy is forced as a consequence of social expectation. These images redefine the commonplace by the moonlight, and capture a range of emotions through the environments we inhabit. Fading sunsets and long night exposures are accentuated by strobe, transforming the atmosphere into a cross between hollow movie sets and lucid dreamscapes. Light becomes the voyeur and alternate subject as it cast its unnatural beauty of the environment. It accentuates the disparity between glowing romanticism and the darkness that lies in the shadows, thus creating tone and metaphor for the work.