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Using photographic fictions to suggest mental anxieties, my work relies on the paradox of the photograph’s ability to define a moment, while at the same time act as a tool of deception. small is a series of digital photographs of figurines in staged tableaus. As if performing for the camera, human-like figures are cast as surrogates in an adult fiction. Pouty lips and eyes that droop into a melancholic expression; a mood that is amplified by the uneasiness of an ambiguous space. A once joyful gesture now implies falseness in an environment of soft focus. A rough plastic seam along a bent arm interrupts the narrative with evidence of its manufactured birth.

Laurie J. Blakeslee

small
digital inkjet print
4" x 6"
2006
bill's relationship w/ color
digital inkjet print
4" x 6"
2005
voyeur
digital inkjet print
5" x 5"
2006
deer dear
digital inkjet print
4" x 6"
2007
varmint viewing
digital inkjet print
4" x 6"
2006
suburban cowboy
digital inkjet print
6" x 4"
2006
smile
digital inkjet print
6" x 4"
2006
small fantasy
digital inkjet print
4" x 6"
2006
roving eye no. 2
digital inkjet print
5" x 5"
2006
roving eye no. 1
digital inkjet print
5" x 5"
2006
oh deer, dear
digital inkjet print
6" x 4"
2006