06/14/2023
🌐Print Contest Finalist #9🌐
Isolation Portraits: Nightmare of the Forgotten Self
The concept concerns nightmares: Looking deep within yourself and exploring personal reflections that highlight your inner fears. During times of Isolation, humanity has been given the time to explore and embrace the inner shadows that have been hiding amidst the distractions of everyday normality. Finding these negative issues that bother us in dreams and in our subconscious thoughts need to be addressed for positive thinking to be heightened. Overcoming inner turmoil allows for clarity and new insights into approaching how we live our lives.
This series was created during the historic time of quarantine, acknowledging the cultural context of what it means to be living during the lockdown. Pushing the conversation to reference time and mental stability when everything else is fundamentally unstable. Rachel was at an artist residency in La Napoule France before the lockdown began, and as a result, she was stranded for months in a strange place, with people she barely knew during the pandemic. In this work, she is seen with the Quimera Mask by Tadeo Muleiro, who was also a resident in the program.
