This body of work, "Deified", evolved from a project I started about two years ago creating portraits which incorporated the haunting beauty of Maine; vacant ballrooms, historic college halls, fog-filled beaches, aged inns, and deep woods. After I photographed each of the women, I began splitting the images in half, flipping them to create new beings in symmetry within a strong graphic layout of the page. The images started to take on a folk art aesthetic. They also gained a royal presence—like goddesses or deities; the women seem to hold a mystical power in their gaze. I chose "Deified" as the title for the series because "deified" is a palindrome (it reads the same forwards or backwards), and the women in the images have transformed from mortals to goddess-like beings... making of them divine.
This body of work, "Deified", evolved from a project I started about two years ago creating portraits which incorporated the haunting beauty of Maine; vacant ballrooms, historic college halls, fog-filled beaches, aged inns, and deep woods. After I photographed each of the women, I began splitting the images in half, flipping them to create new beings in symmetry within a strong graphic layout of the page.  The images started to take on a folk art aesthetic. They also gained a royal presence—like goddesses or deities; the women seem to hold a mystical power in their gaze. I chose "Deified" as the title for the series because "deified" is a palindrome (it reads the same forwards or backwards), and the women in the images have transformed from mortals to goddess-like beings... making of them divine.