Poignant Portfolio no. 20: Sara Silks
Recovery of Small Thoughts…a book text diary
by Sara Silks
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It is two o’clock in the early morning of another day. Another day at home, the hours long and slow ahead. I am seeing the world as a microcosm. Time seems to encapsulate a life that was once much larger as a series of miniature moments, or small thoughts.
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My way around the claustrophobic feelings that arise is to embrace the quietude of this time and these thoughts. I look at the shapes and spaces in my photographs as breaths of cool air, frozen moments, and I survive. The interweaving of the images begins to open up threads of new possibilities to me, and my world suddenly becomes larger.
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Sara Silks is a fine art photographer known internationally for her work in alternative processes. Silks exhibits both nationally and internationally in museums and gallery shows. Silks has been a finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass the past three years, and was the international winner in two categories of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2017. Her work and interviews have been featured in SHOTS Magazine, Lenscratch, L'Oeil de la Photographie, and more. Her work is currently in major private collections internationally.
Find more of Sara’s work at: https://www.sarasilks.com
From the Editor
If you have read some of my other musings here, you know I am not very good with Instagram. The overload of imagery makes my head spin. I get lost. I need to leave…rapidly. But every once in a while, I have a day where I can brave how it effects my internal wilderness and spend time with it -looking at, enjoying, the work of others.
It was such a day two Sunday’s ago when an image of Sara Silks’ passed my way. I realized that I had not seen her work in a while; that led me to visit her page. One of the images I saw was a blurry image of a woman. If you know my work, you know I LOVE blur, adore blur…
I clicked on the blurry woman and saw that there were multiple images in a sequence. I was taken with them. They are both beautiful and cryptic - quiet and peaceful while somewhat disquieting. That was enough for me. I hope you enjoy these images as much as I did.
–Diana Nicholette Jeon