Carrie from Guardians of the Golden Gate

Woman in black leather and mask posing next to a building.

Donated by the artist to the Colorado Photographic Arts Center collection on February 19th 2015.

Project Statement
"For the past two years, I have been inviting people to create imaginary characters for my photographic series "Guardians of the Golden Gate," providing them the opportunity to express themselves led by their own creativity. By encouraging my subjects to put together their own costumes, I ask each individual to construct a unique character inspired by personal ideas around mythology, archetypal superheroes, and science fiction. This work is about imagination and role-paying as much as it is about manifesting interpretations of identity, particularly as it relates to self-representation in contemporary photographic practice. Influenced by a cultural crossover of ideas and inspirations, each individual invents a distinctive persona for the camera. The series results into hybridization of a diversity of aesthetic references, epitomizing the integration and assimilation of social and cultural globalism. "