"Venus" Type R Chromogenic Print Taking a break from my Paper Ballet project, I thought I would share with you a few images I created awhile back. They are constructed from my imagination and incapsulate a few ideas I have about the portrayal of woman in photographs, creating a narrative between sexuality and containment, effervescence and contentment. Venus riding on the crest of a wave, the excitement and unconfined enthusiasm of youth and the contained beauty and power of wisdom, are characteristics which are embodied within each and everyone of us. "Bodies of Water" were physically created by sandwiching slide film of portraits I had shot, with close up details at the waters edge and then printing them on Type R paper. The beauty and warmth of film can be felt in these images. A discerning eye can quickly tell the difference. The tenor is at a different pitch. It's like tasting fine dark chocolate after only experiencing Hershey's all your life...
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