Final Series
~ Thematic subject of art and cultural heritage of destruction offers the opportunity to engage with a potent image that can elicit cultural empathy, to critically examine a historical and contemporary social problem that affect the present and future, to examine attitudes and values, and to consider how art intersects with issues of power. Providing a touchstone for looking back through destruction, neglect, and reconstruction. The complexity and often overlapping issues of destruction and reconstruction fit into the importance of identity and contestation of who we are. The photographs show two perspectives, what the photographer is seeing and what the subject is seeing. Utilizing raw forms and images there’s abstract in organic subjects. Canvasing textures to obscure the true nature of the photographs, communicated with gestures and expressions, photography is obvious but creates an element of mystery. An initial reaction to photographic images often leans toward belief or tr...
