Imprints
My work demonstrates
intimate realities that flow behind the façades I project into the world. In conceptualizing these images I call
upon the emotional undercurrents that clash with the carnal self; a self that
enables one identity to conceal another.
Using a photographic emulsion and artificial light, I capture in silhouette
the presence of my physical body.
The processes and surfaces resist my control; the resulting abstraction
of the literal form articulate the otherwise concealed emotional and
psychological structures. The
frustration of my inability to fully determine the outcome appear in the image
as flaws, tears, fingerprints, and inadvertent patterns that communicate the
dissonance between internal dialogue and outward appearance, revealing without
my permission that which I had longed to hide
-R.J. Peña
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