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Cynthia Madrigal
Portfolio Artist Statement Online Information   Colorfield Guillotine   Fluid  Freeway series Have you driven home and not remember how you got there?
This series explores the slippage of what is seen on the surface with what is kept hidden. The slippage is often examined as a dichotomy yet these pairings are not simple oppositions. They reciprocate and help create one another, in the same way that light and darkness cannot be understood without one another. We are as much ourselves by what we do as by what we fantasize we could do. It is the middle of the image that creates the synergistic strain of having to keep things in equilibrium. When you flip them over, the roles are reversed — envisioning becomes reality, and reality becomes surreal. There is still the tension of the line in the photograph, which functions like a balance beam. The basic opposition in the work is visually complementary, reflecting the Chinese philosophy of yin and yang. |
