Art Exhibit- Snapshots: Work from Stephanie Folk

Snapshot Series: This body of work is both emotional and literal - created referencing a photo from my travels and life. My memory of that moment fueled its abstraction and surreal undertones. In each painting lives a message from me written in symbols, only I can decode. The system of personal hieroglyphs allows me a public confessional but with secrecy.

On a more direct and conceptual level, these paintings illustrate the absurdity of our world. We walk amongst the plethora of insanity daily-both beautiful and hideous.

Razor lines along glowing screens

Cement angles biting concrete seams

Fleeing into our cosmic dreams

We are trapped inside an obscene scream

Two sides of the life and death theme

Escaping in sleep the universe intervenes

Waking with the sun beams

Chasing faux silver gleams

Paper dolls by the ream

-Poem by M. Damon