Sarah Small
www.sarahsmall.com
Ariella and Crow
Arthur Flying
Ellijah's Arrival
Laura at Evelyn's
Laura and the Scar Girls
Olga Reaching for Walter
Sabina and Anthony's Eye
Larissa as Water Jesus
Hanging Redhead
Tears on SaraLiz
Sarah Small
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Artist Statement
The Delirium Constructions
These images are from an ongoing body of work placing unlikely characters or activities together in the same space. In this series, I explore the purest interaction I can find unhindered by environmental cues that could signify occupation, social class, or revealing context. While many of these scenarios are staged, the emotions that result -- uneasiness, curiosity, sensuality -- are spontaneously captured and authentically experienced. Though these moments may be disquieting, they are packaged in candy colors to disarm the viewer so they can step inside each scene. I want to photograph the raw emotional underbelly of scenes both found and fabricated.
Like an optical illusion, where the viewer shifts between opposing visual perceptions, these images reference emotional illusion: a rocking back and forth between projection and introspection, between thought and feeling, between darkness and hilarity.
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