ARTIST STATEMENT

ESCAPE

The reality of life is that there’s always a time when we distant ourselves from the world. Especially as a child, we try to distort the truth to create a perceived form of what is real. My project ‘Escape’ is based on what reality was like as a child. I decided to take certain aspects of my own childhood to create this collaboration of images. One of the factors that I decided to focus on was the book Alice in Wonderland. The story was told regularly to me, and eventually became burned into my memory. As a child, I always perceived the book as nothing more than a fairy tale, with the character Alice going on Adventures in Wonderland. However, many people started creating their own interpretation on the story, including some aspects of sex and love. What I perceive the story to be about now, is the Character Alice running away from the world. Although Wonderland is part of Alice’s imagination, she sees it to be a physical place where she can escape from reality. As a child, I too often wanted to escape, or disappear. I have focused on this feeling of escaping, and have used the character the Mad Hatter from the Alice in Wonderland book to convey what I wanted to symbolize through the shoot.

EVALUATION

The main aim for the exhibition on Monday 27th November is to  choose a selection of images from the personal project that we are doing at the moment. The project that I am doing is based on the theme of body image. However, I decided to choose a set of images that I had collected from a childhood memory theme. I did this because I hadn’t yet achieved a wide range of images that I would be happy to display to represent my project so far. I was very happy with the collection of images from my childhood memory shoot though, and was happy with the representation that they displayed.

The images that I have chosen for the exhibition are from a project based on Childhood memory. The shoot was inspired by a book that I had read as a child called Alice in Wonderland. The way the images represented the book, and childhood memories worked really well. The images themselves were inspired by tableaux and fashion photography, which I believe can be clearly seen through the set of images. The atmosphere and the hidden story line behind the images create a sense of mystery which is what I wanted to convey. I love the tones and colors clearly shown through the set of images, with the constant theme of wonder and mystery. I am very happy with the way the images are going to be displayed because they flow well together. I have also chosen a wide variation of images, some close up and some full of the wild environment. There is also a wide variation of poses and angles that help to tell the story that I aimed to convey.

The images are set in a distorted form of reality because the main theme for the project is escaping. I am very happy with the outcome of my display for the exhibition because I believe it conveys my idea really well.