Translucent Movement (2015), 32X40 inches, Digital Prints
This series focuses on the vulnerability of young women, especially teenagers. I chose here to show this through the image of a ballerina. A ballerina is always seen as fragile and delicate because of the way their specific dance moves and looks. When looking at a ballerina, they are usually thin and tall. In the dance setting many young women are always exposed to the pressures of peers to do good and to look their best. In this today's society, especially now that social media circulates, young women are always being told by the media that their image is not desirable unless they are skinny and fit, this then leads to people feeling vulnerable and under appreciated. By placing the ballerina in an area where there is a high volume of pedestrian and vehicle traffic, I am showing just how vulnerable a young person can be, even if people do not always see it.
I used a medium format film camera to take these shots. I used two photographs from a roll of slide film that has been crossed processed, images 1 and 4, and the other two are from a regular C-41 roll.
Each photograph is placed in order as they would be seen in a gallery space. I have a few images of the work installed in the Open Studio 3200 class show, Phase I: History and Memory, at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.