Not Good Enough
The Ballerina Collection
My desire to capture these aspects of movement originates from a personal empathy and experience that I have received from ballet.
To dance is to be out of yourself.
Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is grandeur on earth and it is the individual’s own to take.
I have revealed these different roles of ‘identity’ and ‘power’ through the use of gender, using the male body and setting free the boundaries of artistic emotion and theatrical restrictions societally placed on them.
I am constrained by the scanner for this project, as well as the degrading aspects of digital manipulation, translating this 'aesthetic experience' into a processed, degraded, virtual one.
I have liberated the camera, and invented an autonomous yet restrained scene and translated it into a frozen performance.
Dance is something to be enjoyed as beauty while still within your own mental and physical restraints, and through this series I seek to expose this contradiction of aesthetics.
The pieces within this body of work are all created with a process I invented…
Upon completion of my Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) & my Masters (MA) from SCAD-Atlanta, I created my own photographic process with scanography.
In older forms of photography, the glass served as the negative, or served as the transfer medium sometimes with paper positives, etc.
In my process, the subject is visually treated similar to a film "negative" and the image is flattened through digital degradation with a portable wand of light.
I developed the process originally as a mockery of digital photography because I was so pissed about the digital 'takeover'.
It also served as a technical tool to help express some of the concepts my work centered around with ballet which was a huge part of my life growing up.
This allowed people to see a perspective from someone on the inside looking out, instead of the outside world trying to look inward.
I wanted the subject to become the ‘negative’ which related to these ideas technically and conceptually.
👉These images are life-size (or pretty close to), because the object is summed into pixels, the size of the object scanned is the size of the file.
Images with people tend to be 67”-72” on the long side.
You can view examples of the scanography process I created dispersed throughout my work, but specifically concentrated in my 'Things I've left Behind', 'Scanography Soul Portraits' and 'Not Good Enough' Galleries.
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Not Good Enough
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Pin It
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Tutu
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