Stephen Santamaria

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http://www.seesquared.net

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415-626-6280

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My work explores creating visual and psychological tension by imposing an abstract motif on to the implied objectivity of a photograph. Or vice versa, depending on how one approaches it. One of my goals is to engage the viewer as a participant in the board game I create in the process, to linger more before proceeding to the next image. 
 
The photographic subject matter (thus far) consists of the face and body, since these are stimuli that appeal to us on a primal level, to that somewhat scary 'lizard brain'. We seem to have an insatiable appetite for these subjects, given their prevalence in the media. To alter their integrity in the manner I do can elicit a negative reaction for withholding what both nature and nurture make us desire, or else a reflective one by interrupting one's quotidian sensory experience.