Making Eye Statements: "Making My Own Voice"

Monday, 4 September 2017

"Making My Own Voice"

“I think I have tried to be aware of the world around me...

I am more concerned about making my own voice,

which I hope interprets into the abstract.”

- Shelley Niro, Artist

The inspiration for my blog post today comes from an interview that Shelly Niro gave to Becky Rynor in the current National Gallery of Canada (NGC) magazine (link). Ms. Niro, a multimedia artist who won the 2017 Scotiabank Photography Award, lives in Brantford, Ontario, and is a member of the Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation, Turtle Clan. I find her work to be engaging, humorous, and multisensory. Several pieces of her work are in the permanent collection of the NGC.

I hope she will do another interview for the NGC in which she expands on how she uses her art to find her voice – she has one of those voices that we all need to listen to.

With the greatest sense of humility and gratitude to Shelley Niro, I hope that I am following a similar path to discovering my own voice as a photographer, especially now that I call myself an artist.

Thank you, Shelley Niro, for your inspiration.

The photos that follow were all recorded in the last seven days. Enjoy!