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Much of my studio time is consumed exploring materials and ideas to fuel my work. This exploration consists of generating a multitude of experiments to test new materials and new techniques, as well as employing traditional techniques and materials in non-traditional manners to find what best suits the piece. This research has allowed my concepts and forms to evolve, while also preparing me to create an efficient plan of construction. All of these benefits make these studies vital to my process.
Biography
Involved in photography for nearly a decade, UGA BFA candidate Jessica Lily
Horwitz was born on an air-force base in Loring, Maine. She has maintained academic
excellence throughout her continuing status as a Presidential Scholar at the
university and has received several prestigious awards, including the Lamar
Dodd School of Art’s honorable Kuzmicki-McCutchen Scholarship for Fine Arts.
Artist Statement
Many of my photographs offer a portrait of domestic litter, uninterrupted and
left to the whims of the natural world. I choose household waste to document
the interaction and constantly changing perspective that we have with the objects
that make up our space. This refuse serves as a fossil of modernity. It deciphers
a nation that appears fast-paced and disposable, proving that civilization continues
beyond branding, advertising, and subliminal messaging. As humans, it is in
our nature to humanize the objects that we create and live amongst -- objects
that resound the idea of identity and of home.
With a 4x5 view camera and color film, I examine locations that verify the conflict
between haste and stillness. Having spent time studying contemporary housing
patterns and structures, I am captivated by their swift construction that encourages
immediate expendability. If our contemporary notion of the literal home can
be effortlessly exchanged, how does this inform our sensation of the figurative
home?
I question the sustainability of modern life. We live in a dissolving nation
where homes are sprouted in masses -- quickly and efficiently. As occupiers
of a techno-enlightened world, humans are left with minimal earth-understanding
responses. We have replaced essence with technology, tossed our leftovers and
are constantly ready to start anew.