Honorable Mention
I Put On My Rib And Collarbone, 02
DESCRIPTION
We try to repress feelings of past (traumatic) events, putting them aside to go on with our lives. These events inform our identities, they are unseen, and sometimes forgotten, yet the feelings stay with you — they mold you. Becoming an unwanted friend. A friend who tangles you within an (suffocating) cocoon of emotion. These feelings do not need to govern you. When an (un)invited reconciliation is extended it is a plea to untangle ourselves — a plea to be resilient.This work signifies a settlement with our identity. Each composition is selected to be neutral, the sliver of space between ascending and descending. Representing the singular struggle with our emotions — an experience we all share.
AUTHOR
Rahshia Sawyer is a conceptual photographer based in the Washington DC area. She was the 2012 recipient of the Contemporary Talents award from France’s François Schneider Foundation. Exhibited in the 2012 Inaugural Dublin Biennial, her photographs and installations have been included in numerous group shows in Canada, England, France, Ireland, Spain, and United States. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Foundation François Schneider, and Radford University Museum. More recently she received 2016 Honorable Mention from the International Photography Awards and Prix de la Photographie (Px3). She received her MFA from George Mason University in Virginia, and her BFA at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington DC. Her current projects examine relationships between beauty and humanity and its balanced (or imbalanced) interaction between reality and fantasy. 