3wings:

Untitled * :: Penumbra Series :: Silver Gelatin Print
Sarah Cusimano Miles

People create meaning from human experience in part, by investing emotional attachments to objects that may seem meaningless to others. By filtering and transforming experience through personal attitude, memory, and culture, people form perceptions, and these ideas may be held for a person in the smallest of tokens, collections, and photographs. Emotional investment in objects and how the perception of those objects may shift from person to person is a partial focus of this body of work. As objects are removed from their intended environment and placed in combination with other material, new associations and connotations arise. I see these photographs as dealing with the psychological complexity of painful experiences and the beauty therein, and the allure of beauty and the pain therein.