As a photographer used to making work outside of my home. I have been working on self portraits for quite some time. Now more than ever I had myself, no assistants or big lights and no production or art director managing my every move. It brings out my humor and fantastic ideas into light. Through my camera and love for fables and stories. From peter pan to the wizard of OZ, to me just having a fight with the vacuum cleaner.
In times of COVID 19 I have made a portfolio of more than 65 images that resonate with the moments we are living. As the human race goes back to the new normal, we will start seeing life and our purpose in a different light. I will never go back to who I was as myself like the rest of the world stranded and isolated. Staying at home with my children and my husband.
As an artist it has opened new spaces to make work out of my new normal. My daily life is now compiled of cooking, cleaning, school chores, cleaning my husband when he comes back from long days at the hospital, supporting him emotionally and taking pictures.
The house chores have to be done. I just brought my camera with me. Traveling from the kitchen to the playroom, the bathrooms and the storage room. I find that I have discovered that any space is built of millions of possibilities to shoot in. I have started shooting my everyday because as a creative, if I am not working I slowly shutdown. I made work out of frustration and fear. Using it to my advantage as therapy.
I wanted to clear the fe an artist. I have enjoyed myself making images that make my audience think and laugh. It has also been therapeutic for me. A way to live outside this world of confinement, fear and uncertainty.
I researched art history and made it my own. I represented the last supper and the creation by Michelangelo and Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez. I decided I would go to Florida and stay by the ocean ( who I'm having an affair with) to finish the search for myself. I meditated every morning, wrote, and worked like I have never worked before. The creativity that came into me was insatiable.
Slowly I found myself in the midst of chaos Fear, uncertainty and anxiety weren't dictating me anymore.
