ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 77

Stanley Shoemaker

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meaning when viewing my work, my
photographs and titles just give a hint
on what Im trying to communicate, in a
way, the final interpretation comes
from the viewer who creates the final
message by his or her own personal
experience.
For this special edition of
ARTiculAction we have selected
nuclear dream and awakenings a
couple of pieces that our readers have
already started to get to know in the
introductory pages of this article.
What has at once captured our
attention of your work is its dynamic
and autonomous aesthetics: in
particular, it seems to communicate a
successful attempt to transform
tension to harmony, and it's really
captivating. While walking our readers
through the genesis of these piece,
would you shed light on your usual
process and your sources of
inspiration?

As I said before, I think Im always trying
to create a relationship between
different scenes, mixing each image so
that it works perfectly between on and
the other, I traveled to cambodia in
2009 and was amazed by the
devastation and post war apocalypse
that they went through as a country,
the khmer rouge destroyed society as a
whole, when i was in tuol sleng prison I
just couldn’t believe the consequences
and psychological effect it had on me,
so I took one of the beds that were
used to torture prisoners and as I came
back to mexico I knew that I needed to
use that image not to emphasize the
horror of civil war but to use it in a way

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