I have lived in Florida my entire life, spending most of my time no further South than Sarasota, although I have been to Miami and the Fort Lauderdale area a few times. My family all moved down here from other, Northern states in search of jobs, weather, or for health reasons. As a young girl (and as a not so young girl) I spent time clambering around Florida's natural landscape both inland and coastal.
Although Florida's natural beauty is a dominant part of what defines Florida, there are many other areas of interest for me. Historically, I have always been fascinated by local peoples - the native Indian tribes that settled here for generations, the Spanish invasion and conquering of La Florida, and the lifestyles of the southern coastal cities like Miami - the roles they play in drug culture or human trafficking and slave running, for example.
For this project, I hope to research these topics, and combine aspects of both the natural beauty with Florida's perhaps not so glamorous past. In connection with my current body of work, I have been focusing on art as a form of therapy when healing from trauma. My work for this class, I hope to relate to this topic by using photographs (sometimes indirectly) to illustrate, expose, and in some cases document buildings, people and places related to the above topics. To do this, I expect to experiment with composition, depth of field, and time of day to create atmosphere and convey mood.
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