Pain and Pleasure, Pleasure and Pain
Beauty in Liberation, Culture in Adaptation
Passion, precious
Creation, alive
Piece by piece, One man at a time
Extremism extracts down to the core
Truth expressed by less, acquiesced by more
Atlanta-based artist Kayla Alexander lives in photographic terms. As if her eyes boasted the frame of a pinhole camera and her every blink was an adjustment of shutter speed, Alexander is, by nature, a photographer’s muse. Her subject is man, stripped of material excess, delineated not by color, but a black and white scaled portrait focusing in on the simplest and realest truth of humanity: man is inherently a beautiful creature. Alexander delicately captures her subject in his primal element, culturally and emotionally, creating a transparency of being. All trapped within his temple -pain or pleasure, pleasure or pain- is liberated, resurrected from the depths, and accepted for its unadorned candidness. Alexander’s photographic extremism exhibits the universal spirit as an art form- piece by piece, one man at a time, expressed by less, acquiesced by more.
