Whitewash, like many of my projects, was inspired by the following quote by Albert Camus. For me, the series is about feelings of despair and surrender... “It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe." (Albert Camus)
-Josephine Cardin
My work is a bit of an abstract illustration of feelings and emotions, in this case despair and surrendering. I hand painted the white abstract pieces and then integrated it in post processing.
-Josephine Cardin
I don't think I can easily describe my style. I never set out to create anything in a particular way or to achieve a specific look. The result of what I do is just what comes as I create, and even if I tried to make it differently it always comes out with my own distinct voice. I'm inspired by words, music and other artists, especially painters. But most of all I'm inspired by normal everyday people...the lives we all live, the struggles, the ups and downs, and the emotions we can all relate to, no matter where we come from.
-Josephine Cardin
Make art that is true to you. Don't try to be someone else or what you think will be liked and admired. Listen to your own voice and put that into your art, regardless of what kind of art it is. Artists are always fearful of competition, and though there are indeed many artists trying to make it at the same time, good art that comes from a real place always stands out.
-Josephine Cardin
I used a Canon 6D, Canon 24-105mm lens for this project.
-Josephine Cardin
About Josephine Cardin
Josephine Cardin - born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Josephine Cardin is a fine arts photographer who grew up in South Florida, and is now living and working in Rochester, NY. Presently, Cardin has been developing her contemporary figurative work, inspired by music, dance, and the human themes of loneliness, isolation, fear, and transformation. Cardin works primarily in self-portraiture to illustrate scenes that bewitch and explore our human sensibilities through abstract stories with a visual dialogue between the subject and the artist created through harmonic gestures and magnetic artistry. See more of her work at Behance or her website.