Cara Wade

Cara Wade graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004 with an MFA in Photography. Now she is working at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Wade is the Assistant Professor of Photography
Cara Wade’s Mordancage / Insidious Charms collection is very intriguing. In her artist statement she describes what women have gone through to live up to the aspect of beauty. She talks about how women have put themselves through such dangerous tribulations to reach that ideal beauty. Wade says that though she may detest this practice she also embraces it. She works through a combination of technical processes to merge her representations of beauty and a manufactured grotesque. Her imagery both glorifies and chastises while setting up a different definition of beauty.






When I was thinking of what I wanted to do for a project I came up with a very similar concept as Wade. I wanted to capture the beauty of dancers and then basically dirty up the image with textures. As I came across Cara Wade, I fell in love with her images. The idea of beauty does overtake our society, men and women both struggle to achieve beauty. Her work inspires me to explore and try as many different things as possible.




Resources


http://www.platestopixels.com/JAN-FEB2010-main.html

http://www.energygallery.com/2D2/2d2G1/G1artists/CaraWade/caraWade.htm