Waiting for Alice

• Prize
• Photographer
  DeAnn Desilets As an artist, I have always been drawn to simple ideas with strong contexts. I look to express the human and environmental condition around us by making a connection through a shared experience. Inspiration comes in keeping my imagination and eyes open to what is in my surroundings. Childhood memories of running free in the woods and creating my own worlds have been staples through my entire body of work. Pulling from made up stories, known fairy tales and museum dioramas my work aims to create emotional connections that hearken back to the days of my youth. At that point in our lives the world is a pile of blank books where every emotion, reaction, experience is new and exciting. By revisiting these feelings in the world around us we can stop and pause to reflect on what may have been lost, and gain new perspective about where we are in our lives, our world, and our environment., United States

Landscape Through the Looking Glass

“We begin as children seeing the world as a mystery.” -George
DeWolfe, Contemplative Photography, 2007

Changing perceptions in our world is a strong conduit for emotional
experiences. These connectors produce vulnerability, fear, and
disorientation as well as certainty, comfort, and awareness.

There is inherent magic and wonder in moments of self-discovery
through childlike imagination. By stopping and experiencing the world
around us, we gain perspectives on whom and where we are. My
intent is to recapture feelings of possibility, utilizing internal responses
from the mystery, mood, and inquiry I create.

The play of size and scale, light and dark, and warm and cool
produces these responses. I purposefully manipulate these formal
means and environs with different size furniture to lead the viewer to
more inquisitive emotional outcomes.

Furniture is familiar, comfortable, and welcoming. It triggers safe
memories and subconscious connections to the past. However, when
placed in unfamiliar and wild surroundings, furniture emanates new
awareness and brings new meanings to rekindled youthful
imaginations. Escape into each image becomes an exploration in the
push/pull of adult vs. child and big vs. small as we elicit the emotions
of another place and time

This Fine Art/Landscape series includes twenty 20" x 20" digital
photographs, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, face mounted
on plexi/acrylic.

Awards Recent MFA Graduate from the Academy of Art University!