PAMELA WALDROUP
ARTIST STATEMENT - Life Validated and Unveiled
Life Validated and Unveiled features 40+ photographs from my Organic Reactions, Vegetal Structures, Fog and Trees, and Architectural Works series that often take on a sculptural quality and validate concrete connections to the past, present and future.
As a fine art photographer, I use my camera to reveal to others the details I find in everyday subjects that often go unobserved. The photographs on exhibit in Life Validated and Unveiled capture interactions between human, environmental and industrial elements through a geometric approach found in the repetitive patterns and shapes frequently appearing in my images. Exaggerated angles of view and juxtaposition of serendipitously placed elements combine with moody, sometimes dramatic light to leave the viewer with a sense of a presence unseen but felt.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a heightened awareness of my surroundings. I take photographs because I want to capture that feeling of being mesmerized by a moment in time so I can relive those feelings each time I look at my work. "Composing" started many years ago while on long and frequent family car rides. The car window became a frame to capture memories... photographic validations. My photographs are as much about what I leave out as what I choose to include and more about the feeling that I have in the moment than the actual representation.
Editing and printing my images are akin to being “there” again. I believe an image cannot be created without revealing something about the relationship between the subject and photographer. The placement, the close or distant proximity and the lighting all narrate a search to find order in chaos through intense observation of the accidental commonalities that occur around us every day, in every moment.
I hyper-focus on the subject to solidify my own experience and provoke a memory, real or imagined, to surface both for the viewer and me. Through the subtle use of color and bold black and white, my images invite viewers to immerse themselves in the place, mood and time depicted but leave room for personal interpretation and imagination as well.
In the words of Henry David Thoreau, "The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
ARTIST STATEMENT - Life Validated and Unveiled
Life Validated and Unveiled features 40+ photographs from my Organic Reactions, Vegetal Structures, Fog and Trees, and Architectural Works series that often take on a sculptural quality and validate concrete connections to the past, present and future.
As a fine art photographer, I use my camera to reveal to others the details I find in everyday subjects that often go unobserved. The photographs on exhibit in Life Validated and Unveiled capture interactions between human, environmental and industrial elements through a geometric approach found in the repetitive patterns and shapes frequently appearing in my images. Exaggerated angles of view and juxtaposition of serendipitously placed elements combine with moody, sometimes dramatic light to leave the viewer with a sense of a presence unseen but felt.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a heightened awareness of my surroundings. I take photographs because I want to capture that feeling of being mesmerized by a moment in time so I can relive those feelings each time I look at my work. "Composing" started many years ago while on long and frequent family car rides. The car window became a frame to capture memories... photographic validations. My photographs are as much about what I leave out as what I choose to include and more about the feeling that I have in the moment than the actual representation.
Editing and printing my images are akin to being “there” again. I believe an image cannot be created without revealing something about the relationship between the subject and photographer. The placement, the close or distant proximity and the lighting all narrate a search to find order in chaos through intense observation of the accidental commonalities that occur around us every day, in every moment.
I hyper-focus on the subject to solidify my own experience and provoke a memory, real or imagined, to surface both for the viewer and me. Through the subtle use of color and bold black and white, my images invite viewers to immerse themselves in the place, mood and time depicted but leave room for personal interpretation and imagination as well.
In the words of Henry David Thoreau, "The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
