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I sense when I am making these pictures that they not only describe the ephemeral self and the unstable experience thereof, but also capture a fugitive landscape. Perhaps these images are about impermanence; the assertion and negation of self and impermanence of nature, of place. Each of these images describes a solitary moment. I am not referring to the solitude of the figure, but to a solitary moment in time; a time, place and experience that will never occur again. It is free from context, connected to nothing, fictional. There is no reference to a tangible reality. Instead the reference is made to the internal reality of the subconscious.
The experiences I am having when I make these pictures, and the pictures themselves are my very sustenance. They offer me some clue as to who I am, however complicated and indecipherable. They tell me things I did not yet know about myself, things I had never articulated or given awareness to. Looking at them now I can see they are about my role as a woman, and as a human being in a world that is often violent and binding. They speak of fear, submission and overwhelming exhaustion. They embody sexuality and death; both of which are, for me, strongly linked to the relent of self-possession.
I have also found that they spark my memory of the profound ability for a human being to sustain both overwhelming sorrow and exhilarating joy; the experience of the sublime amidst the instability of the ever-shifting, conflicted chaos of the internal self.
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| Rebecca Rome is a photographer and visual artist whose work centers around startlingly honest and autobiographical self portraits, as well as her undeniable mastery of Pinhole and Polaroid based techniques. Rebecca's unique artistic vision is the result of a lifetime of exploring identity, the subconscious and the internal self, as well as an intense connection and dedication to nature and landscape. She has lived, worked and photographed in settings as varied as New England, California, Hawaii, Nova Scotia, and New Zealand and has spent significant time living and working in rural, rustic and dilapidated environments Her great love of the ocean is omnipresent, and while not necessarily featured in every image, the sea is unquestionably never far away. Since high school, Rebecca has worked from coast to coast as a photographer and model. She served as a teaching assistant at the Maine Photographic Workshops, a school from which she received a professional certificate in photography. Rebecca has also presented her work and lectured to a graduate level university class at Academy of Art University in San Francisco where she began her serious photographic studies. Rebecca’s exhibitions include a current show at Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco and an an upcoming show at Rebecca Kormind Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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NSCAD
The Maine Photographic Wokshops
The Academy of Art University, San Francisco
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Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco. April 27 - June 3, 2008
Rebecca Kormind Gallery, "Curious & Curiouser", December, 2008 |
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| ARTICLES |
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http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/02/art-space-talk-rebecca-rome.html
http://www.artslant.com/sf/events/show/16786-pinhole-and-alternative-camera-images
http://blogbitesman.net/2008/02/20/the-photography-of-rebecca-rome/ |
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