Mia Will
Artist Mia Will
Mia Will does not seek the perfect picture – she seeks what lies beyond it. Her works invite you to look beyond the visible and encounter the truth beyond the image. Discover her art as a high-quality art print, a stylishly framed canvas, or a modern poster on MYARTPRINTS.COM!
"The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them. ~ Ramana Maharshi
My father was obsessed with photography. We became objects of his obsession. I later remarked bitterly: "I don't know my father's face. When he looked my way, his camera was always between us." Even as a child, I realized while looking at his results: "The camera lies." What was projected on the wall as slides or captured on paper, and labeled as "Mother," "Father," and "Brother," was not the truth.
From my outrage arose my desire to do better. I truly wanted to capture, to make visible, the "true," the "real."
As an adult, I began to "manipulate" photos, as it's called. In photography, what a camera can capture and present is referred to as "reality." What I do is labeled as "manipulation," and it's looked down upon because it's assumed that my ability to photograph is too low to authentically and truthfully depict something without altering it. This does not match my experience and my reality. No camera in the world and no photographer in the world can capture the true, the real with a camera. Every picture that comes out of a camera is a lie if taken literally and believed to depict reality. When photos are manipulated, one might come closer to reality. I now know that there is only one thing an image can be: A gateway to a level of reality that never lies within the image, but always behind it, beyond it. To speak in Buddhist tradition, every image is a finger pointing to the moon.
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