ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“The Ideal series presents a comparison between the ideal found in statues and the real found in humans. Many of the images also contain interaction between the forms. This interaction is meant to suggest the attainment of the ideal within one’s romantic relationship. The continuation of the project involves the adornment of the ideal.

The color photographs are multiple exposures of the sculpted form and the human form. First the statues were photographed. I made a sketch of each frame as it was shot. Later I referred to the sketches when exposing each frame again, this time with the human form.

I was captivated

years past by his beauty and strength

A powerful warrior

Looking down

from atop his pedestal

Who

was this human

cast in marble?

Did he embody

all that I imagine?

A painting

of a sculptor, in his studio

embracing a woman

who turns from stone to flesh

The real and the ideal

what could it be

and ought to be

PROFILE

Annaliese received her B.F.A. in photography from The Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C. and her B.S. in advertising from Syracuse University in NY. She has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions in San Diego, Maryland, Connecticut, and Washington D.C., and has had numerous television interviews and newspaper articles about her work. She is also represented by several galleries.