 Mary Helen Yates "Fallen" archival pigment print 22 x 17" ("Fallen" is exhibited as part of How Are You Doing, a group show for the tail end of 2020.) Mary Helen Yates is a fine art photographer and photo illustrator using historic processes, digital images and video. Of this piece and 2020, Yates writes: I’ve always been intrigued by the myth of the fallen - celestials cast out of a place too rigid to allow for creativity and individuality - so we start there. As for 2020 - it hit me hard with a severe bout of depression and anxiety that dominated my life for the first part of the year - possibly one of the worst periods of my life mental health-wise. I’ve always thought of depression as a swirling vortex that I 'fall' into. As I started looking at images that I had begun but never finished - this one called out to me - I reworked it and started seeing the similarities in being cast out of a rigid structure to how our society views depressive episodes. Comments are closed.
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