Pareidolia
Our minds are engrained to find patterns, to see the familiar in the unfamiliar, it is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. This series exposes the viewer to the artists minds eye. Do you see the same story etched in these series or do you see something different hidden in the textures of landscapes and mountainsides?
The Pink Chromatic World : Rosy Visions
This photography series delves into the psychological concept of "rose-colored glasses," a metaphor for an optimistic, sometimes unrealistic view of the world, particularly as it pertains to desert landscapes New Mexico, Colorado, and Coachella Valley. By photographing these natural scenes through various tinted lenses, the series explores how shifts in color perception can alter our interpretation of these arid environments.
Drawing on the work of psychologists like Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck, who explored cognitive distortions and perception, this series examines how our mental filters shape our reality. Just as Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Beck's Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) highlight the influence of thoughts on emotions and behaviors, these images illustrate how tinted lenses can create a more idealized or skewed vision of the world. Each photograph juxtaposes the stark, unfiltered reality of the desert with the enhanced, often romanticized vision offered by the tinted lenses. This visual metaphor invites viewers to reflect on the cognitive biases that influence their perceptions, encouraging a deeper understanding of how the mind can color experiences. By using the desert, a landscape often perceived as barren and unforgiving, the series underscores the idea that beauty and complexity can be found in unexpected places, depending on how we choose to see them.
Washed Out Echoes of the Past: A Visualized Exploration of Repressed Memories
This photographic series explores the ephemeral nature of repressed memories by intertwining personal experience with imagery of muted landscapes , abandoned mines, and liminal spaces. By drawing on the artist’s own repressed memories, the work reflects the fragmented and elusive quality of these recollections. Through faded, desaturated photographs, the series explores the idea that repressed memories, like the abandoned spaces and vast landscapes depicted, exist on the periphery of consciousness that seems fragmented, hard to grasp, and shaped by both memory and forgetting.
Repressed memories often exist as incomplete or distorted fragments buried deep within the subconscious mind. In this series, she explores the complex interplay between memory, trauma, and the passage of time, using her own experience with repressed memories as the foundation for this visual narrative. Characterized by a subdued color palette and soft focus, which together create a sense of memories fading, washing out, and blurring over time. The landscapes, with their vast, often desolate expansiveness, evoke a sense of isolation and distance, mirroring the way repressed memories can feel unreachable and disconnected from present experience. The photographs of abandoned mines, with their decaying structures and shadowy interiors, symbolize the forgotten and suppressed elements of memory ; places once filled with activity and life, now left to decay into obscurity. These settings, both natural and man-made, serve as metaphors for the neglected and forgotten aspects of memory. Also, drawing inspiration from psychological theories from figures like Sigmund Freud, who first conceptualized repression, and Elizabeth Loftus, who investigated the malleability and fallibility of memory, this series navigates the blurred line between what is remembered and what remains hidden.
Through this series, The artist aims to evoke the complex emotions associated with repressed memories, feelings of abandonment, isolation, and ambiguity. The faded, muted images serve as a visual metaphor for the elusive nature of repressed memories, reminding us that the past is often inaccessible and shaped by the interplay of memory, trauma, and time. visually representing these themes through landscapes and abandoned mines, and grounding the work in her own experiences, the series invites viewers to reflect on their own relationships with memory and forgetting.