I strongly believe that stained glass is an unlimited expressive and virtually unexplored technical medium–
The drugs were rampant, abandoned buildings were everywhere, it was hard to get jobs, and I was capturing an immigrant society who was trying to cope and survive in a new location that was often unwelcoming and sometimes hostile.
Much like poverty, the problem of obesity is not just the fault of the individual, it is a problem of society. Changes need to be made.
I have never considered myself political or had much social commentary, but in hindsight, all my work was political and social commentary.
I have always wanted to be able to illustrate more than one side of a body in the same photograph in a seamless manner that made it look natural and real.
We want to change the consciousness of the public and how they think of the brain.
I begin to think that there is no way out of the painting, want to scrap it and then I push myself to continue and somehow as if by accident or chance they appear.
I believe we are not black nor white, not even grey, but we are a very complicated mix of good, bad, darkness and light
photography has started to be consumed more rapidly in social media which has become a visual dump
I got to know each person I photographed before I ever took out the camera. Establishing true friendships and immersing myself in the culture was deeply important to me.
In my photos I am often trying to represent a parallel universe, my universe, where the core part of my mind and hearth reside.
I’m enamored with the idea of weightlessness and flight. ‘Omar Robles’
[The environment] is most definitely an urgent issue to the people of all nations, and getting more urgent the longer everything continues in the old ways, but so far the corporate influence on policy has prevented any meaningful action.
I guess the reason for [my] approach is one that deliberately harks to bygone (yet eternal) visions of love
Alexander Yakovlev and the power of dance and flour
These are old stories of relationships between the rich and poor, doctor and patient, life and death
Think of the body of mathematics as the unfinished rule book of nature. Just as there is beauty in nature, there is also great beauty in mathematics. It is a conceptual beauty that time and again translates into visual or audial beauty.
For us, it’s more about emotions than the actual body form. The body form is our tool to describe the feeling
We fought our way out of the dust bowl for economic uncertainty, poverty and unemployment due to huge disparities in wealth distribution in the modern day.
We focus on not breathing and moving a certain way and there is something very peaceful about that. No time to think. It is almost like survival mode.
When I was a little girl, I would stare at my mom’s albums of classical painters
Most of my pictures are representative of my dreams, hence the surrealism touch. The rest are all my fears or obsessions…
I’ve always been a water baby, and even in the beginning of my career I can see it coming out a lot in my work.
