free response warm up #18 copyright 2013 robert shana parkeharrison gautier's dream

Free Response Warm Up #18

Copyright © 2013 Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison “Gautier's Dream”

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison Artistic StatementOur everyman balances on a small circus platform as he breaks from his burden of salvaging a dying world. These unexpected visual moments are not necessarily what the Everyman signed up for. But he partakes in the timelessness of ritual and make-believe. It is a world only slightly removed from his standard tasks. In fact, outside, beyond the velvety curtains and spangled chandeliers, we see the very the landscape he often tirelessly tries to rejuvenate and repair. The stage offers endless narrative possibilities and favors contradictions – hope and despair, desire and failure… to explore the fragile human condition, and the overarching shadow of environmental destruction. Perhaps the only true hope for our world and our human spirit rests in our ability to imagine.

Tiana MamaghaniI found this body of work moving because I have always been interested in surreal photography, I even did surreal photography as a body of work. Their use of backgrounds and fabrics. They used the whole image to portray their thoughts and each photo has a dark and creepy feel. Each photo is strange and unique and its interesting to see the photos in B&W even though they were shot recently, it adds more emotion and feeling to the image.

free response warm up #18 copyright 2013 robert shana parkeharrison gautier's dream

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