2nd place
silver star award
Ana Priscila Rodriguez
netherlands 
title
Home Sweet Home
She graduated Cum Laude from the Academy of Fine Arts in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 2006, specializing in Mixed Media and Photography. She also has background studies in History and Graphic Design.
Her collage work explores images from the past, giving vintage material, through a mixture of diverse techniques, a completely new life and energy, all this evoking nostalgic textures and processes. The purpose of her images is to create a relatable shore for the emotional and psychological human experience. Every image is a window to a story using photography as a medium to create visuals attached to a feeling or an emotion. The complexity of the texture in her photographic work creates the illusion of an old oil painting in each of her images, giving a sense of dark melancholy, romance and drama with a tone of classic Baroque. They become eloquent stories and fairytales.
She creates conceptual self portrait photography using a variety of digital techniques and mediums until they lose their contextual shape. For her, transformation is the real act of creating art. To be able to transform my reality into a magical realm where real life collides with dreams and nightmares is what her work is all about.
Her mixed media work builds itself on layers of different materials, this is how she has developed her own technique called “faux tintype”, with this technique she simulates the metallic structure using transparent foil and different chemicals creating a small window to a small story. The result of that story is up to the viewer, it is like filling in the lines but through their experience and sensations. In this way her art becomes a direct line of communication through empathy and imagination.
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entry description
Home Sweet Home is based on the tale of the idealized home we all dreamed to have, or have had, how our society has established everyone should live and experience happiness. The dollhouse symbolizes this childhood innocence and the naïve thought of an absolute satisfactory existence within the perfect family pattern. These images attempt to create an alternative reality to that myth, also within a fantastic realm, but one where the reality of the hardship of life is reflected in adulthood, and the relationship of our wounded and battled grown Soul with that childhood idyllic tale, which may or may not have ever taken place. “Home Sweet Home” invites to travel through the rabbit hole of our past, stepping on trauma and dark memories, all the way back to the adult self, responsible of their past and their memories, and protector of that life, which is after all how it was meant to be regardless of their imperfection and where resilience, forgiveness and wisdom can finally be reached.about the photographer
Ana Priscila Rodriguez, born 1974 in Mexico City, resides in The Netherlands since 1998.She graduated Cum Laude from the Academy of Fine Arts in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 2006, specializing in Mixed Media and Photography. She also has background studies in History and Graphic Design.
Her collage work explores images from the past, giving vintage material, through a mixture of diverse techniques, a completely new life and energy, all this evoking nostalgic textures and processes. The purpose of her images is to create a relatable shore for the emotional and psychological human experience. Every image is a window to a story using photography as a medium to create visuals attached to a feeling or an emotion. The complexity of the texture in her photographic work creates the illusion of an old oil painting in each of her images, giving a sense of dark melancholy, romance and drama with a tone of classic Baroque. They become eloquent stories and fairytales.
She creates conceptual self portrait photography using a variety of digital techniques and mediums until they lose their contextual shape. For her, transformation is the real act of creating art. To be able to transform my reality into a magical realm where real life collides with dreams and nightmares is what her work is all about.
Her mixed media work builds itself on layers of different materials, this is how she has developed her own technique called “faux tintype”, with this technique she simulates the metallic structure using transparent foil and different chemicals creating a small window to a small story. The result of that story is up to the viewer, it is like filling in the lines but through their experience and sensations. In this way her art becomes a direct line of communication through empathy and imagination.
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