Stop and Start

Comment

Comment by Resident Curator on October 29, 2022 at 8:39pm

Curator’s Comments:

Stop and Start initially looks like isolated film stills.  Perhaps this is because of the sequential arrangement of the photographs on a partitioned grid, or because they collectively capture poses suggesting stop motion images and a close-up.  The darkened bedroom environment provides an intimate and vaguely voyeuristic scene, until the gaze of the face in the upper right quadrant  returns our stare.  I looked back through your other works posted to the site, and while I enjoyed many of the drawn portraits, they don’t capture the soulful tenderness conveyed in your photographs. The mosaic collage is quite sophisticated, and I was surprised to read in your caption that it was created for a class in 2011.  I would love to see how your photography has evolved since those early self-portraits were created exploring reflection, identity and self-discovery.