“I felt to be truly authentic, I needed to show the shadow and the light” PennySlinger
. “I spent many years totally outside the systems of the fine art world, by choice and circumstance ... being non-traditional is part of who I am.” Created during lockdown in Los Angeles, where Slinger now lives, the work is a response to the Covid-19 pandemic and is beingThe series consists of photomontages which directly reference our current moment, “seeking to explore the psychological entrapment and fears that accompany the experience” of lockdown.
“The project came about because, as an artist, I need to express and manifest in order to feel I am doing what I am here on the planet to do. I have never been a documentarian in my art; I seek to explore the psychic landscape and give form to the ineffable rather than to offer a representation of the material.
“For the first few weeks of the isolation I did not feel motivated to any kind of creation. I was processing. As I tend to be empathic, there was a whole lot of intense and challenging energy coming in to deal with. My psychic and physical being felt challenged too, so I was just hunkering down and in self-preservation mode. After this initial period, what I wanted to express came bubbling to the surface.
“I have experienced a wide gamut of emotions and reactions during this time and I wanted to try and express the full spectrum. Some people react negatively, some positively. I felt to be truly authentic, I needed to show the shadow and the light, the anguish and the transcendence. They are all part of us as human beings, beings with bodies and minds that have their own ways of dealing with what comes in.
“[After the pandemic] I do not want to see us return to what was considered ‘normal’ before. I do hope this opportunity to stop and smell the roses has helped open up hearts and minds to what could be, rather than what is. I have been deeply concerned for the plight of the planet for many years now. So many lessons could be taken and applied from this ‘time out’, but perhaps that is the subject for a whole other article.
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