Artist Statement:
" 'Reality means you live until you die,’ the agent says. ‘The real truth is nobody wants reality’"
-Exerpt from “Survivor” written by Chuck Palahniuk
Within literature, there are three factors at play: Character emotions, reader emotions and the far more obscure author emotions. As one reads a novel, an interactive experience occurs, a conversation between the reader and the author. This concept was of a great interest to me as I created this series. It was my hope to portray not necessarily a direct scene from a chosen book, instead to illustrate certain emotions experienced within the novel itself.
These images were staged, a moment between others, a pause between the before and after of an event.
Books are a place for us to escape within, and it is my thought, that photographs may serve the same purpose. As one views a photograph, I like to imagine that this moment as well is a conversation between artist and viewer.
