Lonely Jorōgumo - Limited Edition 1 of 3 Photograph

Find me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/MarissaRae My work is concerned with the physical, the organic and the innate mysticism of the human body. While you see my photography here I am a dance artist first. I have been a dancer since I could walk and everything I create comes from this source of connection to the emotions and innate wisdom of the body. I am a woman and a performing artist. I have spent my entire life in front of the eyes and the camera lenses of others. This means that the tangible and archival presence of my work had previously always been reinterpreted through another’s gaze. Being female in the world is loaded. Being a woman who makes her art with her body is even more loaded. While I always appreciate my collaborations with other artists I decided it was time to reclaim my work and my bodily image. I no longer rely solely on the eyes of others to preserve my work. I originally started using photo and video for my own purposes in the studio to record my ideas for later reference, as a way to test costume and makeup concepts and to get distance to look at the work objectively while considering composition, lighting, and to give myself performance notes. This tool over time became fueled by it’s own creative force. Photography and video is now as much of my creative instinct as movement. Common themes in my work are ritual, the occult, sleep/sleeplessness, romance, heartbreak, the female form, female archetypes and mourning. Works are often highly emotional, mysterious and always created through the lens of feminist thought.