Angie Buckley Artist Statement:
“Our opinions are continuously shaped through associations with people in our immediate environment and our culture. Habits, stories and traditions from various groups are passed from one generation to the next and most of these things transform over time through a subtle metamorphosis. One of the results is a magnitude of assumption made about others based on a pre-constructed interpretation. My artwork is driven by a fascination with the invisibility of such transmutations and its affect on our society as a whole.”
“The dreamy quality of the pinhole camera distorts the sense of scale of the landscape and the dioramas. Likewise, the primitive quality of the camera contrasts a current obsession with technical advancement. Cutting out various shapes of figures or objects and placing them in front of the photograph from which they came makes it seem as if they have stepped out of time to confront the viewer. The duplication of characters is similar to the retelling of the stories and the open silhouette holes are analogous to the vacant cultural histories of the displaced. Subsequent generations, such as my own, find themselves in-between imagination and the real world in order to put pieces together to build understanding of oneself and the culture around them.”
Buckley is showing the ghost of person that used to be there and put them there by using the original photograph in the image of photoshopping the original person into the scene. She would also shoot through a cut out of a person so that there is an empty space where they used to be.
I relate to Buckley because we are both trying to reconstruct feelings from old photographs. I love the way that her images look so dreamy and I wish that the photographs that I am recreating had this type of quality to them so that I can learn
Website
http://www.angiebuckley.com/
Interview
n/a
Gallery
http://artslide.fa.asu.edu/mfaslide/buckley/index.htm
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