my artist statement

heyy, here is my artist statement. any feedback about which parts work and don't would be great. thanks

I am making pictures about a desire for authentic experience. I am reacting to an increasingly artificial and manufactured world. I desire to transcend the simulated to experience something more “real”.

Yet, in the hyper reality that we live in where illusion has replaced reality, it seems nearly impossible to escape simulation. It leads me to question if it matters if an experience is simulated? It is a real experience of a simulation. In my exploration, it leaves me to reconcile simulation and the illusion of reality.

I think a sense of heightened experience is subjective. Personally, the authentic experience involves returning to a true and original state of existence with nature. I mourn the loss of oneness with nature that humankind once valued. I yearn for the physicality and tactility of the natural.

In my photographs I want to hint at a simulation or manufacture yet suggest the potential for genuine experience