Scenes from "For We Are Where We Are Not"
"Then, on the surface of being, in that region where being wants to be both visible and hidden, the movements of opening and closing are so numerous, so frequently inverted…man is half being."
– Bachelard. G, The Poetics of Space, 1964
In this series each image has been composed in response to a question asked of an individual. Using my imagination to help me understand other people and breakdown private barriers, I hope to interpret personality through photographic process and aesthetic.
Each photograph is shot through the private space of the bedroom window, a physical and metaphorical barrier, of the person who answered the question, exposing how valuable our differences are.
About the Artist
Amelia Stewart
I am an image maker who works across a variety of mediums to create photographic outcomes.
My projects interrogate the intersection between surface reality and inner experience. Using photography’s modality to form productive relations, I look at the interplay between our surroundings and selves. Through recording observations with my camera and constructing photographs, I explore the connections between our imagined, embodied, created and natural environments.