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Tara Sellios

Photographer
Lessons of Impermanence
Biography: Tara Sellios is an artist working in large format film photography.  Her work focuses on the broad themes of life and death, with further emphasis placed on ideas of fragility, impermanence and carnality.
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Lessons of Impermanence
Copyright Tara Sellios 2024
Updated Nov 2011
Topics Art, Color, Large Format, Photography, Still life

I strive to create images that elegantly articulate the totality of existence, focusing heavily on the broad themes of life and death, with further emphasis placed on ideas of fragility, impermanence and carnality.  Death has always possessed a significant presence within the history of art, ranging from altarpieces to the work of the Dutch still life painters.  Manifesting melancholic themes with beauty and precision, as these artists did, results in an image that is seductive, forcing the viewer to look, despite its apparent grotesque and morbid nature.  Through these images, I aspire to make apparent the restlessness of a life that is knowingly so temporary and vulnerable.

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