honorable mention
Matthew Dols united arab emirates
title
de:re:construction
When we go through our lives, we change over time. Experiences are added and some forgotten, and they are all summed up in the persona we are on any given day. In this work I am attempting to wipe away negative aspects of people’s personalities and physical attributes. This is to enable us to appreciate how a person truly perceives themselves versus how they are perceived by the world around them.
inkjet print on Epson Hot Press Bright
painted and sanded
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entry description
In life we each work to create the best representation of ourselves every day, while removing the parts of ourselves that do not allow us to live the life for which we believe we are destined. Change is inevitably part of this process - retaining parts of ourselves that we value and removing parts of ourselves that we are not very proud of is at the heart of the human experience.When we go through our lives, we change over time. Experiences are added and some forgotten, and they are all summed up in the persona we are on any given day. In this work I am attempting to wipe away negative aspects of people’s personalities and physical attributes. This is to enable us to appreciate how a person truly perceives themselves versus how they are perceived by the world around them.
inkjet print on Epson Hot Press Bright
painted and sanded
about the photographer
I am an Assistant Professor of New Media in the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University (Dubai and Abu Dhabi campuses). He has his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and Design. His artwork has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Crown Point Press, and the Auchenbach Collection, Palace of Fine Arts.back to gallery