The Human Experience
SCAD Open Studio, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA // Fall 2019
Red Sky Studio Showcase, Red Sky Studios, Allston, MA // Winter 2018
My collection of three images are inspired by the human experience that causes one to create, and how one reacts to expression. In common conception, works of art are often identified with experience. This means everyday events, doings, and sufferings all impact a person’s artistic expression. This works in the opposing way by a viewer examining art. With understanding, insight, and stimulated admiration the human brain experiences an emotional outburst.
Throughout time people are carried forward, not merely by the impulse of curiosity to why art looks a certain way, but by the pleasurable activity of the journey itself. This means if one sets out to understand artistic reason of a piece of work, they will be committed to find the interactions of the source.
That is why for the collection I focused purely on the artist, and how the piece of art made them feel. How creating it came to be, as well as the environment in which they were inspired by. All things accumulated the theory that all works of art are influenced by human experience. My goal is for when people view the photographs as a work of compositional art, they notice their emotional reaction when interacting with human expressionism.