Vee Hua 華婷婷Regardless of its content, a sense of royalty and fluttering grace is pervasive in Stone’s Optimism As Cultural Rebellion, which flows like angel robes in religiously significant Renaissance-era classics. Draped Women, Carroll’s series of draped, anonymous women, is more self-contained — exploring spaces shared not with partners, but singular individuals and their relationships to domesticity. Domesticity is displayed like a prison, in contrast to the balance between freedom and constriction in Stone’s pieces, with ornate though purely suffocating aesthetics.
Nonetheless, Carroll’s vision bears some similarity to Stone’s, as she reveals in the following statement: “This series has references to draped statues from the Renaissance, nuns in habits, women wearing the burka, the Virgin Mary, priests robes, and ancient Greek and Roman dress, among others. Hopefully, I am bringing humor to pathos.”
Matthew Stone
UK photographer Matthew Stone is self-described on his website as an artist and a shaman, who utilizes numerous artistic disciplines to recreate the role of an artist in the 21st century.
Patty Carroll
Patty Carroll is a Chicago-based photographer and teacher with an interest in documenting human interests and pecularities.
Jake Renn
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