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by Sena Clara Creston

photograph $200

I compose my decisive moment. The point in time of heightened emotion when the entire scene comes together and the viewer can project their own story onto the photograph. The mood of the image is used to convey the picture's intentions, while the plotline remains secondary and often ambiguous or fantastic. I use photography as my medium because these are scenes that could have happened. Whether these situations have occurred in reality, memory, or only in our fantasies, these are scenes that many have seen before and can only relate to on a personal level. My stories often involve children and adolescents of various ages posed with a seriousness about them that suggests that they are no longer acting by the rules, but rather by instenct. The photographs show the moment when a human being first confronts the fact that they have the power to do not only what they are told, but rather to act according to free will, regardless of consequence. The pictures vary in their nature from dark to carefree, but there is often the wrestling of the underdeveloped consciouseness of a child caught between fear, fantasy, expectation, and reality. The images create a quiet breeding ground for fantasy and memory. The glowing pictures appear as an alternative world that a person can walk up to and enter. The scenes become real enough to trigger our own childhood memories of when we began to grow into ourselves as individuals.