Artist Statement
The Victorians were the masters of the sentimental. For this series I took my inspiration from photographs of this time period. The Romantic Victorian era embodies a search and an obsession with an unobtainable utopia. It fascinates me that this search for a lost Eden is still evolving in our contemporary culture of compulsive consumerism. Despite our shift in values, the end product of our utopian search feels equally empty. My work is an embodiment of the veiling of this void. The characters I select emote a morbid tone, which shapes the growth of the landscape; they remain encapsulated in their artificial world. This sickly sweet construct evokes the timeless and futile search for utopia.