Featured Artist of the Day: Carine Wallauer

Carine Wallauer

1988

Porte Alegre, Brazil

Photography

All images featured in this post are the creation and property of the artist, Carine Wallauer.

For more information about this artist, please visit her official website, HERE.

Featured Artists of the Day: Sonia and Mark Whitesnow

Sonia and Mark Whitesnow

Kirov, Russia

Photography, Fine Art

www.sonia-mark.com

"Sonia and Mark Whitesnow are multifaceted artists, who work and live in Russia.They use natural materials as well as modern technologies.They have higher psychology and biology education."

- Bio from their official website

All words and images featured in this post are the creation and property of the artists, Sonia and Mark Whitesnow.

Fore more information about the artists, please visit their official webpage, HERE.

Featured Artist of the Day: Peter Sebastian

Peter Sebastian

Risskov, Denmark

Photographer

www.petersebastian.com

All words and images on this page are the creation and property of the artist, Peter Sebastian.

For more information about this artist, please visit his official website, HERE.

Featured Artist of the Week: Brooke Shaden

 

  

Brooke Shaden’s photographic portfolio offers an exploration of femininity and simplicity.  Through a dichotomy of emotions, color, movement, and content, she gently sweeps her audience along on a journey of secrets and self-realization.  Most of her work features a nude female figure with radiant porcelain skin, loosely covered by a simple flowing fabric, enmeshed in various natural terrains.  There is a quiet sadness and struggle of emotion evident in her work.

"Rebirth"

Shaden’s use of rich yet muted earth tones give the images a hazy and dreamlike effect; acting to distance the viewer from the woman, allowing one to witness the glorious moment of emotion tempered through the mystical setting of a dream.   

"The Struggle Ballet"

While these images offer a more serene stage for the display of female beauty and haunting emotion, Shaden’s underwater images allow a more carnal scene of female beauty.  The women in the photos writhe and fight against the downward and encompassing quality of the liquid in which they appear to be trapped – only later to be seen having succumbed, and peacefully given in to the pull and weightlessness of their watery grave.

"Bathe"

 The above image is a testament to Brooke Shaden’s ability to create an overwhelming emotion in an image which actively works to diminish the connection between the woman and her audience.  The audience is forced to stare helplessly as the masked woman utters a blood-curdling cry and gasps for breath underneath the water-soaked cloth.  Despite the tension in her outstretched hands and gaping mouth, the scene is calm; the water smooth and tranquil.  Despite her cries, and her outwardly evident inner struggle – she is inaudible and has no effect on the world around her.  She is trapped in her own solitude, unable to even see the world which refuses to acknowledge her.

"Uneven Staircase"

 This disconnect between the woman figure and her world is a common theme throughout Brooke Shaden’s work.  In most of her photographs, the women are anonymous figures, their faces rarely captured on film.  In the few instances they do appear, they are partially blocked by knotted tendrils of hair flowing in the wind, a hand with palm extended to push the viewer away, or a plain white mask.  It is difficult to pinpoint whether this disconnect is intentional and the women are actively refusing the audience the ability to understand, or if the women act unaware of their audience, living, yearning, exalting in their own private world.  Either way, this disconnect does not force the audience away, but instead draws one in – demanding attention, and a recognition of the beauty and power of these women as they appear tranquilly nestled amongst the natural landscape of mother earth, battling the agonizing forces of society and their own mind in quiet desperation, or pleasantly being swept away into a pleasant dream.

"The World Above"

"Half the Hours Lost These Days"

"The Chainless Links"

The above statements are solely the opinions of the author – SadieFaye

To view Brooke Shaden’s website please visit…

http://brookeshaden.com/

To visit her facebook…

https://www.facebook.com/brookeshadenphotography

To follow her on Twitter…

@BrookeShaden

About Beauty: Franz Kafka

Photo by SadieFaye

 

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty 

never grows old." 

- Franz Kafka

About Art: Oscar Wilde

Photo by SadieFaye

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
- Oscar Wilde