I'm pretty excited about my first attempt at using mixed media to create a photographic work of art. I cut up some polaroids of power lines/structures and stacked them on a background that I painted (acrylics on canvas). I then wove copper wiring through the canvas to mimic the power lines to connect the three structures.
Power lines have always reminded me of how things can be physically connected over a long distance. But I also think it translates in a more ethereal sense. The fragments of the power structures represents us as humans, the pieces that we're made of, and yet we are still intact, standing side by side, connected by "lines" of energy. I also included the moon in the sky which to me is nature's icon of connectivity: wherever we are on the earth, we look up at night and we all see the same moon. It connects us all and reminds us that we aren't as isolated from each other as we think we are.
And so there we go, I never thought photography school would inspire me to create something like this. This year has been full of good surprises!
