Water - Blue - Spirit

Artist Statement:  

"The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes."

I wanted my concept to show where true my spiritually and faith stems from.

I am wearing my Magnificat dance group dress. When I put this dress on I immediately feel more centred and like I have a purpose. Dancing with this group is one of the aspects of my life that I truly excel at and that bring me closer to enlightenment. The wings represent the other aspect of my religion that true moves me, angels. I like believing that someone out there is looking over and out for me. The colour-fade, on the print and in the makeup on my face symbolise the gradual decline of faith in the world and me. The fact that the makeup is on my temples is to show that the reason for my diminishing faith comes from my over thinking things. The place I feel the closes to God is that the ocean in the early hours of the morning. So I did this photo shoot in the rain to be able to include a water aspect.

There are two aspects that only feature once as they represent something that I feel but try not to focus on. The tree and its bark show age and how each layer grows the previous one continuously to eventually make the tree. This is how I represented the fact my religion is hereditary and not purely my choice. The bars on the window and the fact that I'm standing in front of it represents the strictness and restrictiveness that religion can have and that I have to put myself before it. And finally the butterflies on the wings show that religion can be freeing as you allow it to be.