Episode 174 - Breanna Cee Martins

<p>"We're all living in a haunted house, and we're all being haunted by it."</p><p><strong>Breanna Cee Martins</strong> paints the mirage of an America that never existed, for people like her and entire swaths of the population of this country. &nbsp;The artist’s watercolor paintings fall away from the viewer like a half-remembered dream; images of ghostly and phantom children, coming together to explode in kaleidoscopic colors. &nbsp;</p><p>Working from found black and white photos, the images metamorphose into Technicolor nightmares, the old made new. &nbsp;Children dressed up as monsters, and monsters dressed up as children; these monochromatic visions glow with infernal light, watching the viewer, watch them. &nbsp;Posed family photos capture the conflicts raging beneath the surface; the pause or unease creating narrative tension, a rift between what is expected and what’s seen, and better left unsaid. &nbsp;They are images captured from the afterglow of a fading star, an apparition of our world growing dimmer amidst the passage of time. &nbsp;</p><p>These paintings confront you with pleading eyes, asking the viewer to delve deeper into the question, does this familial imagery have personal meaning to you?</p><p>Or, is it evocative of an emotional scene you might have remembered, yet never experienced?</p><p>https://www.breannamartins.com/</p>