Artist & PHOTOGRAPHEr
Vanessa Paxton
Toronto, Canada.
Event Photography – Portraits – FINE Art Commissions
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about
I’m a multidisciplinary artist, born and raised in Jamaica. I currently work in Toronto, where I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ryerson University. For the past 20+ years I’ve documented life unfolding through my lens.
Art Talk
We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artists job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Conceptual Self
I began my conceptual self-portraiture journey back in 2005, before selfie sticks, camera phones, and AI prompts. It was a much more involved process back then from concept to execution, which gave me the space and time to reflect deeply on my intention for, and motivation behind each creation. The more involved the process the more I would question the “why” behind the desire, and the deeper I would travel into the shadows of my mind to investigate my ego. I’ve learned that our access to truth is always filtered through subjective perception, and meaning isn’t inherent, we create it.
