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                     ELLIE bROWN

                     Native of Boston, USA. Lives and works in Ulsan, South korea

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        LAMENTATIONS IN LIMINAL STATES
        The liminal state (in ritual) is characterized by ambiguity, and indeterminacy.
        One’s  sense  of  identity  dissolves  to  some  extent,  bringing  about
        disorientation. Ellie Brown photographs these states, as they exist in the
        mindset of her sisters in transition between childhood and young adulthood.
        These in-between states can feel excruciatingly painful. It is difficult to be
        in-between jobs, in-between relationships, and it is especially hard to be
        in-between childhood and adulthood, a time when the self is trying to find
        solid ground.
        Ellie Brown, camera in hand, stands witness to these dark corridors as she
        photographs the emotional, intellectual, and physical states her sisters are
        going through; the hallways girls trespass in search of the authentic self. Ellie
        Brown, intimates, “when my sisters entered my life, I was going through some
        very rough pre-adolescent years. I had lost all sense of self-confidence due to
        mean female friends and male teasing... I strongly believe that the timing of
        their coming into my life during those years has everything to do with when
        I started photographing them and why I’ve continued for ten years.”
        Perhaps Ellie Brown trains her lens on her sisters in order to discover the
        trajectory of her own path, the path many girls walk in a culture like ours that
        teaches young girls to disappear; to starve themselves of their own identity,
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