PAULETTE TAVORMINA – SEIZING BEAUTY
2021-12-20Still-life photography enables me to create an environment, choose objects to tell a story, and then direct them to create the fantasy I have in mind. This goes full circle back to my first love- curating and arranging things. Beyond just the beauty, I want the viewer to see as I see, to feel the emotion I feel when a leaf balances just-so and points the eye to the next narrative that is part of the larger work. This beauty all around us is fleeting, and yet can be embedded forever in a perfect moment that is a photograph. Creating these heartfelt vignettes allows me an avenue to explore the intimate moments of my life, to tell stories of love and loss, of joy and sorrow, all the while feeling grateful for the rich abundance of life, and somehow seizing that beauty.
Opposite – Dutch Tulips and Goldfish, 2021
Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2022
Gilman Contemporary
661 Sun Valley Road
Ketchum
ID 83340
