Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

‘Silent Shout’

Documented Forms

Digital Camera, Gloss paper

Throughout the production of my work, my main aim was to distinguish how I wanted to present my photographs, film and overall concept of the piece. Initially, I went through countless media trials of drawing and painting and eventually came to the conclusion of developing photo media and other documented forms to best produce my ideas. By utilizing a model, I was able to guide and manipulate her facial expression in order to create raw and emotional images to confront the viewer whilst also directing a prolonged, portrait film to support my conceptual framework and to create a distressing and unnerving aura to the piece. The display and arrangement of my piece also reinforces the concept with both the 8 photographs separated onto each side of the film and the film itself being representative of the ‘silent shout’ common amongst personal suffering.

The entirety of my body of work is based around my conceptual framework, drawing from both personal and universal experiences. The production of my piece is very much centered around my concept with the media choices being decided based off what best represents my ideas. I have chosen to focus on inner turmoil and suffering following the recent passing of my uncle from cancer, aiming to represent how he chose to internalize all his struggles both mentally and physically in order to create a false illusion around family and friends. By drawing from these experiences, my concept lies around the ways in which we chose to hide our true emotions and present a façade, hence the title ‘silent shout’. Each image surrounding the film is representative of inner feelings such as anger, shame, entrapment, and hollowness that we refuse to expose through our outside self, whilst the film represents the front we broadcast to the external world, acting as mask for how we truly feel.

Influencing artists: Jo Chukualim, Clayton Cubitt, Matthew Lees