In my series, “Fate,” one woman personifies the perception of fate throughout historical cultures, particularly Greek, Roman, and Nordic cultures. The images each contain an older woman interacting with the objects, the viewer, or even herself/ her fellow sisters.
The images contain a surreal quality due to the colors I painted into both the backgrounds, the subject, and her surrounding objects. I chose to paint in these images so that I could have control of the mood of the pieces. I created these images by using the montage approach, adding in symbolic objects and landscapes that I thought would best portray Fate and her personalities. Each montage contains the same woman, Fate, in a space relating to the major regional influence of her story. The artist that most influenced the style of my work is Maggie Taylor. In her work, she makes very surreal environments in which the subject is often interacting with other objects and creatures in unnatural ways. I was interested in Fate recently from some literature I had been reading and mythologies that I had learned. All my life, I’ve taken control of my situations and have made decisions independently, and when I imagine that my life is already in the hands of Fate, I imagine her in this powerful, soulful, inhuman, stoic, and unyielding entity. Seeing her as a female throughout history was also very interesting to me because she/ the sisters, would often dictate over even the highest of the gods, for example, the Moirai never needed to submit their wills to Zeus. In addition, the idea of domesticity also belonged with the Fates, evolving as spinning, measuring, and snipping. All in all, I wanted my work to convey the convergence of my own interpretation with Fate and the historic examples of her in mythology. Her influence on each of us influences how we interpret our situations as well as our deaths.
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AuthorFall 2016 Photography 2 Course Archives
December 2016
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