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Mordançage / insidious charms
CARA WADE
ARTIST STATEMENT
Throughout
history, women have put their bodies, and their psyches through
torturous measures trying to live up to the elusive thing that is
beauty. We have constricted our breathing and injected ourselves
with poison. We have teetered precariously, balancing on miniscule
pedestals; we have crafted our flesh into acceptable contours. We
have consensually, if not fervidly, subjected ourselves to these
dangerous tribulations.
This is a condition that I not only detest but also welcome and
embrace. This has left me in a love/hate relationship with the idea
of beauty and the quest to attain it. These images have emerged from
this dichotomy. Through a combination of technical processes, I am
able to merge representations of the beautiful with those of a
manufactured grotesque. In this manner I am able to create imagery
that manages to, at once, glorify and chastise, giving way to a
different definition of beauty, one of engaging oddity and lush
ambiguity.
Cara Lee Wade received her MFA in Photography from Savannah Collage
of Art and Design in 2004. She is currently Assistant Professor of
Photography and Digital Imaging at University of Saint Francis in
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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india
ROBERT
LARSON
BIOGRAPHY
I
spent much of my childhood in the care of my maternal Grandparents.
It was this Grandfather who taught me how to shoot a gun when I was
5, and I grew up dreaming that I’d one day be a great sniper like
Carlos Hathcock.
When I was 19 I gave up that dream, and during a very empty and
aimless period of my life I took a basic photography course at Santa
Monica College. I felt an internal click (excuse the pun) deep
within me. I started to constantly ditch class to go take pictures,
and so it began.
A year later I went to Australia on my first trip abroad and fell in
love with collecting experiences. Since then I have traveled as much
as I can and will continue to do so. More often than not my only
companion on these trips has been a camera.
I am a photographer and a writer; mainly though, I am a work in
progress.
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