Haylee Anne
With everything happening in the world lately, sometimes you just want an escape. These ethereal images provoke feelings of calm and rest, while also confronting trauma and spiritual justice through visceral memory. We are honored to share the photography of mixed media artist Haylee Anne.
Haylee Anne creates images, moments, and words centered on ethereal, visceral memory as a way to confront trauma and spiritual justice. Haylee Anne earned her BFA from Montclair State University, and has shown in venues such as the Center for Civil and Human Rights, The Bishop Gallery, and Soho20 Gallery. In 2013 she was awarded the VSA Excellence in Artistry award by the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center. As an enthusiastic member of Living Melody Collective and collaborator with the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities, she focuses on civic engagement, awareness, advocacy, and community impact, so that vulnerable populations can achieve progress in the face of a shrinking social safety net.
She explains:
My images are a psychological response to extreme emotional hardship, toxic relationships, and health crises. Set in a metaphysical desert throughout shifting topographies, the figures in the images embody questions such as: how can we defeat this, where can we rest, how do we breathe, who do we seek to be, and how are we going to get there? Using a Diana F+ and Lomo Instax Wide camera, I incorporate body, textiles, and landscape, resulting in images of shifting colors and realities. The images manifest a dynamic conversation between self and space, dimensions where one can find comfort within the loss of old habits and selves that no longer serve us. They are a conversation with anxiety and fractures, an ongoing dialogue with past lives.
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