Statement

Tyler Mauk

Ascension

                  Human existence, at its core, can be explained as a transfer from life to death. My photographs set out to capture this idea of the spirit being in transition between two bodily forms. The glass represents two sides of existence; life and death. The moment between these two realities becomes a clear and floating movement of the spirit; awaiting its ascension into another form.  The glass not only represents a separation between life and death, but is also the clarity that one experiences in the unconscious state after death.  

Above is my artist statement that goes along with the work presented in my thesis project (also presented above). Aside from the topics explored within my thesis I am also very interested in the visual aesthetics of film, creating images that reference and invoke thought of the moving image and nostalgia.