Double exposures have been a staple for inspired photographers. Painter Pakayla Biehn, turns the concept on it’s ass in her latest series of paintings that mimics the photography technique.
Continuing the double image theme begun in her previous work Pakayla revisits the cognitive distinction between realism and abstraction, utilizing the suggestive combination of critical and substantial realism with dream-like transfiguration of the natural world. The skill and refined beauty of her paintings enlists a realist style that recalls the delicacy, formality, and craftsmanship of old master technique.
She combines the cultivation of the portrait with a very intimate yet vibrant observation of nature. She displays the unique potential to capture her subjects in inextricable moments that appear to straddle two worlds at once, that in which we exist and another slightly beyond our comprehension. She is concerned with the eternal themes of fleetingness, melancholy, as well as the polarities of subjective experience and beauty. Treating her subjects with a modern approach, there is no escaping the presence of history, or her version of it.
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GREATeclectic aka Kendrick Daye is a DJ, artist and the Editor of Art Nouveau Magazine. As a freelance journalist and photographer his work has been featured in the NY Times Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Upscale Magazine, Creative Loafing, Honeymag.com & Yo-Raps.com.
