Social Media Escape by V.Trev

Photography

Artist statement: This is a piece from an (unfinished) series of experimental photographs I was creating in 2017, during a time my health was at a particularly low point. It was a decade after one diagnosis, whilst awaiting official results for another - and still being some way off having the correct treatment plan.

At the time I was making these works I had very limited energy, heavy brain fog and found it hard to concentrate for long periods to express myself by my preferred medium- painting, even though frustratingly I had many things I wanted to paint. I spent countless hours experiencing artworks and stories through my mobile phone and imagining things I could create - as a distraction from the confusion and pain I was in away from my screen.

This inspired me to try to portray the experiences of my chronic illness through these works. Having made some pieces using a similar technique during university, where I was playing with aperture, shutter speeds with remote shutter release - I wanted to further exaggerate use of these methods within these pieces, with the clearest part of this image being the mobile phone gripped by the subject, depicting that it was providing grounding from all the distortion and unease felt around and within them.

Social Media Escape by V.Trev

Photography

Artist statement: This is a piece from an (unfinished) series of experimental photographs I was creating in 2017, during a time my health was at a particularly low point. It was a decade after one diagnosis, whilst awaiting official results for another - and still being some way off having the correct treatment plan.

At the time I was making these works I had very limited energy, heavy brain fog and found it hard to concentrate for long periods to express myself by my preferred medium- painting, even though frustratingly I had many things I wanted to paint. I spent countless hours experiencing artworks and stories through my mobile phone and imagining things I could create - as a distraction from the confusion and pain I was in away from my screen.

This inspired me to try to portray the experiences of my chronic illness through these works. Having made some pieces using a similar technique during university, where I was playing with aperture, shutter speeds with remote shutter release - I wanted to further exaggerate use of these methods within these pieces, with the clearest part of this image being the mobile phone gripped by the subject, depicting that it was providing grounding from all the distortion and unease felt around and within them.