GEORGIA K. SMITH
«I never know where to start or how to stop. Most of the time I just go. I hit the internal panic button if my camera is out of reach. My mind is full of innumerable questions… and innumerably few answers. What I do know is — I no longer go about everyday life gingerly believing in my own immortality. No longer am I an optimist, yet and still, somehow my idealistic nature persists. Kicking and screaming, I’ve accepted the concept of running out of time. Two years ago I gave myself an ultimatum… “Start making art again or stop referring to yourself as an artist. All those years you spent studying art are meaningless if you’re not out there taking risks and making something of them.” Photography has become the direct path to my soul and offers me the privilege of expressing how I feel about living in the world, warts and all (my own and the worlds’). My research is loosely based on a long-held desire to understand why people do what they do — to themselves and to others in an effort to survive. Together my camera and I wander the landscape — urban, suburban, rural and social – going wherever my intuition takes us (and my pocketbook can support) in an attempt to make some sense of things and hopefully offer a point of view to whomever chooses to receive it. I long to shoot straight from the heart. To jettison the hailstorm of thoughts and any other baggage that more often than not simply interferes with the process. The journey is what I’m after».
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