Honorable Mention
Sea of Tranquility
DESCRIPTION
In Christy's latest work “Sea of Tranquility”, the fragility and vulnerability of her experience as a photographer culminates in a landscape of angelic figures sprawled out in a circular design fit for any majestic Renaissance ceiling: the duality of the central figures, a man and a woman, lay opposite each other as if guiding us on some higher purpose.Set in a sea of color and complex and chaotic shapes, the figures are oddly serene, united by reflecting materials and a central core. In “Sea of Tranquility” the artist questions humanity’s need for suffering in order to be fully free, as if suffering and freedom formed its own conspicuous dichotomy.
Accordingly, Christy named it after the first location on another celestial body visited by humans: the landing site on the Moon called "Mare Tranquillitatis” on July 20, 1969. If we can send a man to the moon, what else are we capable of? I wonder if we can end war on this planet.
AUTHOR
"My purpose behind the work is to question and find understanding in the craziness, tragedy, vulnerability, beauty and power of mankind." CLRChristy Lee Rogers is a visual artist from Kailua, Hawaii. Her obsession with water as a medium for breaking the conventions of contemporary photography has led to her work being compared to Baroque painting masters like Caravaggio. Boisterous in color and complexity, Rogers applies her cunning technique to a barrage of bodies submerged in water during the night, and creates her effects using the refraction of light. Through a fragile process of experimentation, she builds elaborate scenes of coalesced colors and entangled bodies that exalt the human character as one of vigor and warmth, while also capturing the beauty and vulnerability of the tragic experience that is the human condition.
Rogers’ works have been exhibited globally from Paris, London, Italy, Mexico City to Shanghai, Sao Paulo, South Africa, Los Angeles and more, and are held in private and public collections throughout the world. She has been featured in International Magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar Art China, Elle Decoration, Global Times, The Independent, Casa Vogue, Photo Technique, Photo Korea and others. Rogers’ "Reckless Unbound" is currently housed at Longleat House in the UK; the stately home, which is the seat of the Marquesses of Bath and also home to Renaissance gems of the Italian masters, like Titan’s "Rest on the Flight into Egypt." Rogers' art has been featured on several album covers, and her images were selected for the 2013–2014 performance season of the Angers-Nantes Opera in France. She mainly shoots in Hawaii, and currently lives in Nashville, TN, where she also spends her time as a mother, filmmmaker, and musician.
