Angela Bacon-Kidwell, Traces of Existence

Angela Bacon-Kidwell lives in Texas and is a painter as well as a photographer. Her work is wonderfully creative, personal, fun and surreal. In the last few years her photographs have been published quite a bit and exhibited in various shows around the country. This page features a new body of work created mostly in 2011. Below are her comments on the work. Statement: The motive in this body of work is to mend the tension and tragedy created when conflicting emotions meet. Walking through the highs of my recent travel to China and the lows of significant personal loss, I have been searching for a visual level of communication that would unite traces of my existence. I have become increasingly fascinated by how tenacious life is and yet how in a moment survival ceases. The fragility of life is represented in this work by a personal language of symbols. I want all my images to have real meaning for me, even if it is not easily read by the viewer. By working more abstractly, the dissimilar images connect to one another in unexpected ways causing a thought or idea to evolve. The juxtaposition of death and despair, represented by skeletons, old age and holes connected to a joyous life filled with children, birds and Ferris Wheels examine the complicated and chaotic ways in which life contracts, expands, converges and divests in our personal journeys. By stretching the image to near disintegration by burning, freezing and submersions I seek to release my emotions and give respect to a life that has been fully lived. The emotions I sought to bandage together resulted in a somber, but completely liberating experience. Process: Numerous layers of hand painted photographs, drawings and resin make up a single image. The final results are a complex layering process and not complete digital manipulations. The image is printed and re-photographed under various conditions in one final effort to heal the tender wounds that bind my own existence.

This work is produced as archival ink pigment prints. Square prints are available as 16 x 16s for $700.00 in an edition of 15, as 20 x 20s for $1,200.00 in an edition of 6 and as 36 x 36s for $2,500.00 in an edition of 3. Other formats are 16 x 20s for $700.00 in an edition of 15, as 24 x 30s for $1,200.00 in an edition of 6 and as 32 x 40s for $2,000.00 in an edition of 3.

Jump Little Children

Yangzhou Chimera

In the Vicinity of Wholeness	Close to Twlight	Frozen Wishes	Centrifical Force
Frostbound	Double Profile	Hands	Circular Thoughts
Accession	Broken Water	Unborn Space	Awakening Yangzhou
Unclimable Fence/font>	Silence Can't be Cut	Algebra of Darkness	Eyes