POLAROIDS

In Polaroids, I have taken existing and self-created images and collaged them together into new visuals.Using the images that are forced on myself through media and advertising in an attempt to control my definition of what beauty is, I use my Polaroids to take back this narrative and reconfigure and display my personal belief of what beauty truly is. Using collaged portraits then captured onto Time Zero Polaroid film, allows me the ability to carve and etch into the film my design and line work as needed. I approach each Polaroid individually and allow the subject matter to speak to and thru me. 

I studied the art of advertising from a consumer's perspective, the class of the people as opposed to the classrooms of the authoritatively presented voices. I consumed and absorbed the visual bombardments from my revolving surroundings. The voices, sales pitches, lies, truths, and hypocrisies, only to rip them up intellectually and piece them back together with my visual and literal responses. I refuse to allow my identity to be shaped by the mandates and checklists that advertising provides, and instead, I align myself with logical individualism that benefits us all.

What may seem to some as juxtaposition, to me is just beauty being revealed within the spaces and thoughts most neglect. Where some see pornography I can see beauty and nature like a scenic sunset. Where some see grotesque serial killer portrait collages, I see the perfect pieces society sells to us reconfigured in a more enjoyable and equally honest format. I believe my Polaroids hold the emotion from each original piece they originated in and when all put together speak a paragraph instead of individual sentences. These paragraphs are a blending of my voice and the echos of the society around me forced upon my ears and eyes. A dance of verse and chorus transformed from audible notes into textural visual form.