Sandra Hunter Hunter Poetry and photography are combined to access layers of response to written and visual languages. By using language in unexpected shapes and places, and placed on a translucent medium, I hope to make language “hang� in the air. As the viewer looks "through" the language, they see the photograph differently and form their own poem-image relationship. The text leads the viewer into the image and captures how visual and written languages overlap. The photograph and the poem move between each other, between the viewer and the poem, and between the viewer and the photograph. Women are often victims, not just of past events, but of societal messages that may cause them to believe that they are still victims. My work asks for forward motion, for independent decisive first steps, to move beyond the past. Whatever happened before has the potential to lead to strength, compassion, endurance, and creative light. These qualities make us capable of anything. There is only one thing to do: step forward.
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Sandra Hunter Winter 2015
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