"It's a blazing day outside and the body screams for ocean. Cool and crystalline relief as salted water evaporates and skin dries firm like a mud mask. Repetition of hot - cold becomes an experience quite sublime, cooled bared midriff meeting baking concrete. Waterlogged eyelashes squint through the glare, sun flares meeting water droplets to form tiny rainbows across my view. It was just such a lazy day and I started to look at all things through these salty, watered eyes. Is what we see really there, or do we conjure illusions? Like the way your mind tells you everything is in full focus when it really isn't all at once, or when it fills in detail in the shadows of the trees when you’re walking in the dark. The watery renditions of the original scene are more truthful, more accurate in recollection than any clear, more informative image would have provided. And so began the study of how the human mind recollects and remembers scenes and moments. Not with clarity, but always with a blurred, distorted wonder..."

Sonja’s current exhibition finds it’s expression in oil on canvas. A lively, energetic rendition of old school film cameras gives us a playful peek into icons of a bygone era where film photography captured the world slowly, spontaneously and with whimsical imperfection. Inspired by vintage cameras, the evocative red glow of the darkroom, and the rough, playful vignettes of the lomographic era, this collection geeks out on all the nerdy details that define the nostalgia of a time when capturing the world around us carried the label, “no batteries required”.

310 GSM Archival Cotton Rag Giclée Prints