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the 3 "Phoenix" characters from the Venice jail performance were photograped on the streets of Los Angeles. these 2 young men were hanging out in an alley.

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Comment by Resident Curator on January 20, 2012 at 7:42pm

I'm so appreciative of your responses! I really enjoy having a dialogue with new artists about their work.  While having a background and context to view work always helps, I find a fresh repsonse to my work very helpful at times.  Sometimes words get ahead of images.

Comment by julie keller on January 18, 2012 at 11:09pm

Ms. Kristen, I was so surprised to have your comments and thoroughly pleased to have the feedback.  I tend to work in isolation which is why I'm here, trying to wrench open the door.  Because of your comments, I added another image that I've always loved with a sleeping man on a mattress who was oblivious to being photographed next to a costumed figure.  There are more... pictures of older men in a run down hotel that no longer exists  playing cards while a strange figure observes, an old man momentarily loaning me his bicycle wrapped in chains and a big padlock but not wanting to be photographed himself. I discovered that day that I could enter the space of people in areas where i would normally be suspect and have a playful moment that I couldn't have done as myself.  i do see my images moving through dream like space when I'm working on them and I do understand what you mean by the "psychological tension" that is necessary in an image, a level of anxiety and questions unanswered that draws one into the story.  I'm hoping to focus on a video one of these days.  right now it's a soupy mix of ideas bubbling.  thank you again for your welcome thoughts.

Comment by Resident Curator on January 18, 2012 at 10:41am

Curator’s Comment:  

 

I can only respond to these pictures as visual images, but understand the theater of the performance likely imparts many more layers of structure and meaning.  The Pheonix figures are fantastical, exquisite and macabre.   I’m especially drawn to this image because of the inclusion of the ordinary. (male figures)  The decaying industrial setting, while conceptually dissonant, isn’t as visually jarring as the addition of the unknowing, if not entirely reluctant stander bys.  The blue figure is diaphanous and alluring.  She is self composed but strangely vulnerable because of her sheer texture and scale.  Rather than provide a theatrical staged narrative, the figures seem oddly inserted into a mystic scene, reminding the figure of the break with our ultimate reality. While the other costumes are rich in their intricacy and innovative design, the pictures don’t possess the psychological tension I grasp in this photograph.  It’s difficult for me to view the blue figure in absence of her surroundings.  That being said, I’m also drawn to the pinkish violet figure (# 5) with the cascade of human feet.  There is a strange elegance to her pose, and display of human artifice.  The neutral gray-brown remnants of the dilapidated structure in the background impart elegance to the metallic surfaces of her gown.  The costume has a movement that engages the viewer, but there is an ever slight revulsion to the skin-like appendages, and their tattered and torn edge.   Thank you for including contextual background into these works, and a link to your webpage.  I am fascinated by your body of images and the mythology given to corporeal form.

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