2021 Commencement Exhibition

Sophie Cannon

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2021 Commencement Exhibition
This is a photograph of a collage consisting of paper textures and abstract drawings that trace an outline created by light and shadows. The outline making a window with light beam that cast a shadow of the window down onto the imagined floor of the space + Enlarge
Sophie Cannon
The Missing Window 2021 Digital photograph of collage
This is a photograph of a collage consisting of paper textures and abstract drawings that trace an outline created by light and shadows. This outline shows a door with light appearing to come out of the door into a darker space. + Enlarge
Sophie Cannon
Essence of Nowhere 2021 Digital photograph of collage
This is a photograph of a collage consisting of paper textures and abstract drawings that trace an outline created by light and shadows. this shadow outline consists of two pockets of light that create two three-demential cubes framing a dark mass that th + Enlarge
Sophie Cannon
Thickening Gap 2021 Digital photograph of collage
This is a photograph of a collage consisting of paper textures and abstract drawings that trace an outline created by light and shadows. The shadow outline consists of a gradient of shadow that make a space the viewer is looking down at, with stairs (cons + Enlarge
Sophie Cannon
Void 2021 Digital photograph of collage
This is a photograph of a collage consisting of paper textures and different layers of shadows. the shadows make a sort of doorway outlined by a large shadow mass. The paper texture fallows spots of light in the corner of the image that form a stair like + Enlarge
Sophie Cannon
Dripping Out 2021 Digital photograph of collage
Statement

Caving In to Disturbed Beauty is a work attempting to explore, create, and separate my own psychological space from the physical world. This transformation is made through applying a drawn, almost psychological, understanding of space to a photographic one, using shadows and directing light to create the illusion of a three dimensional world on a two dimensional wall. Through these spaces I want to elicit feelings of the Uncanny, placing the viewer in a position of uncertainty, fascination, horror, and guilt. This Bizarre emotion becomes a framework for viewing the entirety of the work, the viewer existing as an intrusive element in a space that is both alluring and detestable.

The element of intrusion and guilt, introduces a victimization of the spaces, relating to the inherent fragility of a world made with light and paper. This vulnerability thus relates the images back to their core as simplified fragments of a dreamscape, an innermost nightmare the viewer is witnessing. The work, creating a space that connects a visceral experience of something horrifying in its fragility, an idea that’s quite disturbingly beautiful.

Photography (BFA) Students
Evelyn Ivy
Gabe Valladares - not exhibiting
Gianna Chun
Joe Guastafeste - not exhibiting
Kevin Jijon-Gochez
Lyds Wildes - not exhibiting
Mackenzie Risher
Marcellus Barnett
Natan Ankri
Quinn Patrick Marvin
Sophie Cannon
Torrance Hall - not exhibiting
Valentina Soto-Ruiz

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