ANNE CECIL
anne@minervamedia.com
www.minervamedia.com

I describe myself as a multiple media, conceptual artist. My work begins with a concept and I choose the media that best fits the concept-tableau photography, traditional/non-traditional/digital photography combinations, collage, construction, installation, performance or some of each.

My work is often whimsical and consciously includes the influence of history, fantasy and humor. The use of diverse and multiple media reflect my background in fashion and visual merchandising.

Inspired by such artists and designers as Madame Yevonde, Elsa Schiaparelli, William Wegman, Josef Beuys,

To cast a contemporary eye over, say, Victorian polar exploration or the Romantic lust for mountain peaks, is to see these barren places become strikingly blank screens onto which were projected the desires, fears, biases, and self-love of an age that directly produced our own.

Between the raw experience and the armchair fantasizing, the mediating role of literature, early photography, and painting is crucial: as historical record, myth-making power, and imaginative catalyst. My work ,then, is also a further translation, skeptical but affectionate, diverging and altered by my own interests as any translation. In attempting to make reductive, poetic objects from historical inspirations, I nevertheless hope to have them break free of the ice and move into wider, subtler, more subjective waters.