Untitled series of photographs abstracting the human form

This series of photographs explores and abstracts the human form. Shot in black and white with high contrast to simplify the subject down to a study of form, light, and movement. Creating this series has been therapeutic; I get to physically express complex feelings that I have about life at this time. Having lost nearly all sense of community at times I feel alone in a dark space totally exposed to the whim of an unknown force. Contemplating my own mortality, that is that it is at risk now more so than before just by leaving my home, I fight it with movement. I move because I am alive I may not be well, but I am alive. When it is time to begin making photographs at night I turn off the lights, I tune out the world, I turn on my light, I turn on my camera, and I begin. My earliest and strongest memories pertaining to art are of my grandmother working on a sculpture of a naked man. She is a large influence making drawings and sculptures that depict the human form, both male and female. Growing up I remember there being many of her sculptures in my home and also the homes of my family. From an early age I accepted that the human form was a natural subject just as landscapes or still lifes are. The human form is a universal symbol; artists throughout time depict it. The Greeks celebrated the human form with enormous marble statues; Leonardo Da Vinci studied the human form in the Vitruvian man, Matisse simplified the human form. We study, interpret, and reinterpret the human form, and this is mine.