MEGGAN JOY
BATTLE CRY
Primarily focused on digital collage, Meggan Joy combines fragments of the natural sciences with her narratives and allegories; often weaving in symbols and motifs from art history to create a new surreal vision. Battle Cry is a collection of these collages representing women in various stages of an unnamed conflict. Their bodies made up of thousands of individual photographs of botanicals, insects and other wildlife - resulting in a final image that is bursting with life and layered with hidden details and anecdotes. Color and texture form each woman’s shape, and from the photographs of once living individual things, portraits of ethereal beings begin to emerge.
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In conjunction with the exhibition, a digital catalog will be published with an essay written by arts writer and curator Sarra Scherb.
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Battle Cry is a collection of digital collages representing women in various stages of an unnamed conflict.
Their bodies made of thousands of photographs of flora and fauna, many of which I grew in my garden for this purpose.
From those photographs, I use color and texture to form each woman's shape. Building a portrait of an ethereal being out of these once individual living things.
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You lowered, and I shifted.
You called the warning, and I carried on.
The spring rain fed me, while you rooted deeper.
I had the belly of a hawk, yet you twirled to songbirds.
Beside us was the trail neither of us was prepared to find.
Our triumph hid in the fray and the bramble, ever-blooming.
And then golden light demanded of us a truce while dancing in faith. So with the first crisp wind, we withdrew to start again.
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Meggan Joy is a self-taught photographic artist currently residing in Seattle, WA. Her practice involves fabricating staged imagery from the ground up, growing most of her subject matter in her garden. Joy has been honored as a finalist for the 2019 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, was accepted into the Trierenberg Super Circuit 2018 - Experimental Section; one of 25 photographers worldwide personally invited to participate by the TSC Exhibition Committee, and received the bronze award at the Moscow International Foto Awards in Fine Art – Collage category in 2017.