Art
Tawny Chatmon
Tokyo born photography-based artist, Tawny Chatmon has undergone a creative redirection, within the past 2 anni, in relation to her initial signature aesthetic. Originally focusing on photography that showcased ethereal, angelic children, she has since metamorphosed her singular medium and included additional crafty components to investigate an innovative exploration of the multifaceted world of art and design. Using her photographs as a former layer, Chatmon overlap elements like gold leaf, paint, illustration and digital collage to enhance her work into truly exotic pieces.
Acknowledging herself as a self-taught artist, Chatmon has executed her photographic craft for the past 16 anni, a field that she turned to after being educated in theatrical arts from the age of 12 à a prima età adulta. L'arti drammatiche senza dubbitu cuntribuiscenu à a so eccitante, pezzi cuntempuranei vistu oghje.
Cum'è un zitellu, Chatmon visitava i castelli storichi in Germania (un paese chì hà occupatu assai di a so zitiddina), induve s'hè innamurata di l'opera d'arte, u romanzu, culori ricchi, cornici barocche, e candelabri. "Ùn pensu micca chì aghju realizatu chì facci cum'è a me mancavanu da l'opere chì ammirava finu à avè avutu i mo figlioli.,", disse Chatmon. "Ancu se sò un fotografu, micca un maestru pittore, Mi ispiru da l'arti rinascimentale in i mo ritratti. Re-imaginendu pitture di l'era di u Rinascimentu è riposizionendu a bellezza di a zitella negra, zitiddina, zitiddina, feminità, ecc. in questu stile di travagliu hè a mo forza motrice ".
The photography-based artist’s current series of work entitled ‘Not Buried, Planted’, addresses the tantalizing relationship concerning pain and growth. With a sense of despondency, affliction and vitality, where an individual opts to either bloom or wither, translates as Chatmon’s underlying message. This is depicted amid images of children with antique botanical prints intertwined throughout that is abundant in poignancy.
Chatmon ultimately conducts an artistic dexterity that exceeds a simple photography practice and explores a new-fangled photographic manifestation that is devastatingly inspiring.
