Stay Soft 2016
"Stay soft. For the sake of anyone who cannot feel or swim inside of their own skin, caught between built barriers now solid as stone. Show them the depth of seas. The language of water."
– Victoria Erickson
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STAY SOFT 2016
SWIM 2016
SHOW THEM 2016
BETWEEN 2016
THEIR OWN SKIN 2016
CAUGHT 2016
LANGUAGE 2016
Stay Soft
“There’s a softness to them,” my friend says as she studies my photographs.
Defiance rises in me, sharp and unexpected. Almost disgust. I flinch at the word, realising I’ve always equated softness with weakness.
But as the emotion swells and then releases, a quiet understanding emerges: being soft doesn’t mean you lack strength. There is strength in softness.
It’s a simple truth, yet its weight fractures old, hardened walls—the ones I built when I was a young girl, mistaking them for strength.
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Punturiero puts the viewer in a dream-like world of compositions where abstract figures are juxtaposed against organic structures layered on top of one another in a way that compresses space and removes all context and sense of scale. The compositions become like another world where a human body merges with the environment and transform to become new organic structures.
LENSCULTURE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2018 JUROR
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Rachel Punturiero
rachelpunturiero@gmail.com
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