Tomb Door, 2006
photo, inkjet print, 24x32inches
€450,00 euro
Tomb Door
Rob Outwater / USA

It would be nice if my work could stand completely on it’s own without any interference from me, and my personality.  That is just not going to happen, the two are commingled and codependent.  I need to feel, I need to have emotion in my life.  I want to express my feelings about sex and relationships, about my connection with God.  When people see my work I would like them to be moved emotionally, maybe enough to act on that emotion to change their lives.  To be more tuned into their hearts and minds and to be more satisfied with who they are.

I get my visual concepts from my dreams whether waking or sleeping.  I try to make the idea a bit clearer with composition and lighting but otherwise what you see is what I was seeing in my dream.  Love, religion and our relationships with each other are my favorite subjects because of how difficult they are for me, and everyone I have ever met.  My work helps me cope and I hope that is helps others to cope with their own spiritual problems.  With the digital process I can keep color out of the image to focus your eye on the human relationships not skin tone or physical beauty.  Beauty is about what you are inside on the composition of your bones and skin.  It is about the relationships you have with other people, animals and the works as a whole.  Beauty is also about the relationship you have with yourself, is it insightful or murky.  Is it sunny or dark.  Is it joyful or full of pain.

In my current work I keep clothing off so that you will be able to identify with the person in the picture.  There is no social class or group identity, no fashion statement or era to date what you see.  Only male and female, sex and spirituality.  Only what is important to you will be visible.

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