honorable mention
Rae Bass united statesPhoto © Rae Bass
title
Dreamy
"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."
This image represents my thoughts, my dreams, and my emotions; colors of all sorts and variations of faded and muted nature yet some how brilliant and enchanting, the feeling of floating and dancing, something so beautiful surrounded by so much abandonment and destruction, and the idea of being in love with everything or simply anything at all.
This image depicts what it is like to see through my mascara coated eyes; this image depicts what it is like to see through the eyes of a girl.
Born and raised down an old dirt road in Pikeville, North Carolina she grew up barefoot and curious. Spending her days lost amongst the hills, the lines in her hands, and the alternate realities she created.
Rae strives to create worlds within her work; whether those worlds are places she longs to be a part of or places she feels trapped within they are all worlds of her own. Located in the sliver of a space between consciousness and limbo; where secrets frolic about freely and the impossible becomes possible.
She invites her audience to jump into her images and become consumed by their detail and dark charm while allowing the viewer to create their own journey through each image.
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entry description
Based off of a quote from Jeffrey Eugenide's the Virgin Suicides;"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."
This image represents my thoughts, my dreams, and my emotions; colors of all sorts and variations of faded and muted nature yet some how brilliant and enchanting, the feeling of floating and dancing, something so beautiful surrounded by so much abandonment and destruction, and the idea of being in love with everything or simply anything at all.
This image depicts what it is like to see through my mascara coated eyes; this image depicts what it is like to see through the eyes of a girl.
about the photographer
She barely eats and barely sleeps and with tired eyes and coffee lips is how she moves about the Earth.Born and raised down an old dirt road in Pikeville, North Carolina she grew up barefoot and curious. Spending her days lost amongst the hills, the lines in her hands, and the alternate realities she created.
Rae strives to create worlds within her work; whether those worlds are places she longs to be a part of or places she feels trapped within they are all worlds of her own. Located in the sliver of a space between consciousness and limbo; where secrets frolic about freely and the impossible becomes possible.
She invites her audience to jump into her images and become consumed by their detail and dark charm while allowing the viewer to create their own journey through each image.
back to gallery