Faron Ard Imaging

Almost Human, Mostly Trouble

From The Artist Survives Himself View Original on Flickr ↗

I do not create to decorate.I create to enthrone.I am not interested in art that apologizes for wanting too much. I do not want work that politely asks to be glanced at, half-felt, and forgotten. I want art that arrives with a pulse. Art that knows exactly what it is doing. Art that enters a room like a woman who does not need permission to be looked at and does not soften herself for the comfort of lesser eyes.Beauty is too often treated like something passive. Consumable. Lightweight. Disposable. I reject that completely. Beauty, in its truest form, is force. It is gravity. It is command. It alters posture. It alters breathing. It has the power to humble, to provoke, to reorder the emotional atmosphere of everyone standing near it. That is the territory I care about. That is the territory I work in.I am drawn to reverence—not as fragility, but as intensity. I want the language around an image to feel like tribute. I want a title to sound like the name of a feeling too large for ordinary speech. I want a subject to feel less like a person being observed and more like an event being survived. Not because I am interested in exaggeration for its own sake, but because I believe some forms of presence deserve to be met with awe rather than reduction.My work lives where sensuality meets myth, where femininity meets power, where intimacy sharpens into symbolism. I do not separate softness from authority. I do not separate desire from meaning. I do not separate beauty from consequence. The things that move me most are the things that carry contradiction cleanly: tenderness with teeth, elegance with dominance, worship with hunger, divinity with a body still warm enough to touch.And I do not create from a distance. I step inside the emotional weather of a piece until it speaks in the right voice. Then I refine it with intent. The result is not accidental. It is not trend-chasing bullshit. It is construction. It is mood made architectural. It is devotion given form.I build themes, atmospheres, identities, and worlds for one reason: because some things deserve more than description.They deserve ceremony.

Made: 2023-06-19
Format: 683 × 1024