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​Alexander Munday

No. 2

2020

 

digital photo/composition

The work, titled 'No. 2', refers to the image being second in a series, but also that it was taken during the second lock-down. It aims to represent the psyche of an individual on the verge of physical and mental collapse, onset by the pandemic. The lack of colour invites the idea that any hope or happiness is gone, sucked out of the very soul of the work, and artist. The double inverted figure combined with the darkness that surrounds it provokes feelings of uncertainty and fear of the unfamiliar, but also a sense of lost. This is aimed to juxtapose the uncertainty and unfamiliarity the virus itself carries with it.

I am entering my second year of a Bachelor of Photography here at RMIT after moving interstate from Tasmania. I moved right before the first lock-down in March 2020. My practice focuses on Surrealist Photography, inspired by artists such as Man Ray and Lee Miller. The themes in surrealism and the surreal nature of the pandemic itself allowed me to really explore the possibilities of these two absurd realities into something itself, absurd, yet refreshing.

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