Jessie Claire Goodwin

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RETURN TO RESONANCE

Fall 2022.

The ordinary is both comforting and utterly frightening. My practice consists of trying to uproot the latter perception of the ordinary. My practice helps me unleash the eeriness of the mundane. My work is the lens which pierces through a layer of basic ‘knowing,’ forcing instead a questioning of comfort. The philosophical relevance of lies in its attempts to poke at and manipulate the convenience we all derive from our routine, the same convenience which morphs us into nothing more than fleshy robotic social softwares— a concept which ought to frighten us all.

In the chosen work, I achieve my artistic and conceptual goal by creating juxtapositions between my subjects and their relationships to each other, or obstructions of the subjects themselves. While the compositions alone do not crack at the “ordinary lens,” the relationships between subject, object, negative space, and color congeal together to create ambiguity in the photos, dismantling the ordinary. My goal is to make it difficult to decipher specificity in these images— to find emptiness, confusion, or a haunting in the ordinary. 

Where there is familiarity, there is also alien; where there is warmth, there is also desolation; where there is togetherness, there is also solitude.