Coventry, United Kingdom
I am interested in the fragments of stories that can be found in historical images. I make paintings and assemble them to create new stories of mystery, romance and drama. Hinting at the old and more recent. The Nostalgic and romantic.
The Delicate risqué images of Victorian postcards, the circus, erotic and romantic text: Old photographs and stories, like these, allow our imaginations to tease at the edges of the scene and the long gone strangers depicted.
Description: The Circassian beauty has been a term used to describe an idealised version of a beautiful woman from concubine, to side show attraction, a bizarre example of a superior race and the sale of beauty products, slavery and tragedy, today she is found on postcards like photographs to add to a collection. These women acquired the name of Moss Haired Girl while under the watch of PT Barnum, which is when the hair became a feature where it had not before. I am interested in the normal woman performing and working Underneath the illusion of an exotic back story. There are hundreds of these photographs to be found and each one tells of a kind of beauty but also of the very normal and everyday.
- Date Created: February 21, 2012
- Total Items: 13
Categories: Painting
