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ELENA LYAKiR

Lives and works in Brooklyn NY, USA
www.elenalyakir.com

In my work I attempt to bridge passion and sentiment with visual imagery. Using elements of nature as my primary subject, I push the limits of
The images serve as an exposition of personal history - combining poetic the photographic medium to suggest charcoal drawings and painterly
longing with the melancholy of diaspora. Thus, I am very interested in abstractions. Employing a combination of tilt-shift lenses, image processing,
creating art that is intimate and viscerally connected to emotion. Each dodging and burning, I create images that appear to have depth, movement,
photograph is a physical testament to our humanness, metaphors for and texture. Aesthetically I am inspired by forms and philosophies of
feelings, sensations, and other complexities of the human condition. minimalism and attempt to generate a visual experience that provides
Through art I seek to evoke memories, which facilitate the creation of mental space for contemplation. while the natural depictions remain vivid,
present situations involving viewers both emotionally and physically, the images blur and fade along the edges, almost as if the centrifugal forces
confronting the awareness of their own states of being, in essence of my own displacement punctuate every interpretation of my surroundings.
turning each photograph into an opportunity for self-reflection.
 bANDED - TogEThER, 2008 PHOTOgRAPHY

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