Seeking Truth

Abstract

I seek to reveal truths with my art. Working with photographic portraits I try to show more than just a pretty face; I try to unveil the subjects both to themselves and to the viewer. I want to boil down their essences to the core and convey their true selves. I try to show the duality of the subjects' personalities. One side of that personality is what photographer Nelli Palomaki calls your "mirror face" 1; this is the face you choose to put out into the world and illustrates the way in which you would like to be perceived. I like to juxtapose this image, the "mirror face," with an image of the true self; the self you do not always like to show the world, the one that you only truly reveal when alone.