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Gregory Crewdson

“Ultimately, probably what scares me most is reality. When it’s a representation, when it’s separate from the world, it more effortlessly becomes poetic or beautiful.” - Gregory Crewdson 

 

He merges the strange with the familiar and creates uncanny suburban scenes that are completely detached from reality. It’s hard to see the warmth and love from the family in his photography, whereas the cold and dark atmosphere surrounds the house. Gregory Crewdson spent much of his youth imagining macabre scenarios to escape the monotony of young adolescence. For me, I always felt fear and doubt about reality, no matter at home or in school during the growth. I gradually realized the different sides of human beings and the desires that we couldn’t control. That made me feel the cold surreal images are more real than the delightful photos. So my works focus more on the pain and fear under the happy surface.

 

Gregory Crewdson intends to use the original residents and the buildings in the town to construct his fantasy. We use different mediums to narrate a surreal world and try to balance the boundary between fiction and reality. Photography is much harder than video to deliver a rich idea in such a frozen moment. But his photography successfully builds up a story in a scene with the sets and colors. Each detail in the set is delicately designed by him. Many of my works also place the set in a domestic space and try to create a strange feeling in these familiar household objects. In order to accurately convey the mood of the scene, the color and material of the clothes or props are carefully chosen by me. Usually, they are second-hand objects with some scratches and spots.

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