Lady 3
chromogenic print
2008
by Robyn Cumming
via iheartphotograph
"The series is titled Lady Things and each one
is just that, a sort of feminine entity that
hovers between a lady and a creature or even
an object. I wanted to create something that
acted more like a vessel within and upon which
I could layer various iconic projections of
the feminine.
I am interested in patterns and textures that
carry with them the baggage of a sort of
mythological ideal; all at once exalted,
yet simultaneously hysteric; romantic to
the point of ridiculousness. There is also
this oscillation from beauty to the grotesque
and horror to fantasy. So I’m sort of mining
these qualities from the stuff that has become
ingrained in our cultural psyche and then
building up something that becomes strange
and functionless but still seductive in a way."
(Cumming, 2008)
