Death As If
Toward the end of her cancer, my mother received hospice care at home. Her dying, then comatose, and eventually deceased body was on a bed in the living room. This room was open and visible from the kitchen and the staircase to the bedrooms. The vulnerability of human mortality was omnipresent.
In Death As If, I stage photographs in my apartment that explore the human desire to control nature and environments despite our lack of control over our own mortality. The metaphorical scenes in these images are influenced by my own anxiety following the untimely death of my mother.
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Stay Angsty
The illustrated album covers of ’80s extreme metal groups attracted me to metal music at the age of 13. It was the campy, defiant and death-related imagery that compelled me to buy the albums without knowing the sound of the bands’ music.
Each photograph in Stay Angsty is a re-interpretation of a specific album cover in which I arrange props typical to both metal music imagery and/or 16th century Dutch vanitas paintings. Similar to ’80s commercial photography, the props are illuminated using studio lighting and photographed with a view camera. The three thrash album covers I depict represent absolute thrash, as well as, elements of death and black metal, the sub-genres that evolved from thrash.
As a teenager, I longed to mimic the illustrations of extreme metal albums. My photographic recreations are a fulfillment of that adolescent desire.
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7 May 2013 3 notes
Popes In Corpse Paint, Animated GIF, 2012
© 2012 Dalia Amara
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Obsessed By Cruelty, 2012
© 2012 Dalia Amara
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