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Abstract, Documentary, Essays, Fine Art, Photography, Spotlight
Swaying is a photographic series of images created from March 2020 to September 2020 during the continued global COVID-19 pandemic. This series contains both the sublime and the unsettling and speaks towards the possibilities of depicting a felt experience and externalizing an internalized relationship to this changing world. Each photograph is constructed using different forms of digital and physical manipulation and references different photographic and contemporary art theories. These theories work as a guide to understanding my relationship to this changing world. Written like a diary, this thesis statement details different happenings during this time and how the resulting photographic work is created in response. This project looks directly at my interpretation of the world around me as one that has quickly and drastically changed, addressing fears and anxieties and a disruption of the everyday.