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Project
Competition
Honorable Mention
Julie
Blackmon, Springfield, MO
Mind Games
I have photographed my three children, their cousins and friends,
focusing on the subject of play. My body of work is about a state of mind
that is instinctive and effortless to children. It is a natural and powerful
confrontation of the extremes of the human condition. I am intrigued by
play because the dark and mysterious sides to this make-believe world,
as well as the heightened sense of beauty and awe, are fantastic elements
that seem to parallel our own subconscious dreams, desires and fears,
no matter what age. The challenge for me is to photograph children and
others in an artistic alchemy allied to childhood imagination and transform
those familiar children into wonderful, fantastic beings that push the
frontiers of the imagination of the viewer, but, at the same time ask
that the viewer consider the wonder of everyday life.
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