ANNIE RANJAN

“I’ve been clinging desperately to my creative side during this pandemic. The world outside feels scary, unfamiliar and hateful. This is a new city for me and it doesn’t even feel safe to explore. The world is being torn at the seams giving me a constant tension, a little knot of fear and slight panic in my heart. I'm feeling helpless and useless, but if I keep creating projects everything else can fade, at least for a while. Almost no one has seen our new home and I love the idea of getting to share it. 

Once I was prepared, I b-lined for my creative space, my “me” room. After snapping twentyish photos I realized that I was photographing what I wished to be perceived by. To relax and be more genuine I began focusing on the messy corners and scattered items from various experiments. Later scrolling through, I noticed that many photos were of the corner window trimmed in crystals, with dreamy, surreal rainbows dancing through. I returned and began photographing through the crystals themselves. I was rewarded by beautifully colorful and chaotic images that express my current intensities and my best daydreams.”

JUNE 2020