Featured Artist: Kevin Brannaman
Artist Statement
These images were taken before the spring of 2010 before I had a mental breakdown. My breakdown was due to a horrible incident I experienced in the military that I had repressed for nearly 30 years.
I wasn't sure at the the time why I took these photographs. In hindsight, it is very clear to me that I was trying to hide something horrible from my past and my subconscious was forcing itself into my consciousness through my photography.
The majority of my "mask" photographs are self portraits. I felt by wearing a mask I could be myself, without the anxiety or the fear that someone was laughing at me. I was in control of what I was doing and how I looked. I was expressing certain feelings I was not expressing verbally. These images reflect my struggles with anxiety as well as feelings of loneliness and alienation.
Cyn Moore
Seattle fine artist, theatrical painter and animal supporter.
Cyn is a fine artist who has been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the Northwest. Her work features animal imagery while incorporating mixed media, encaustics and paint.
Cyn has been a theatrical painter in Seattle since 1999, working in many Seattle theatres and most recently she held the lead painter position at the Seattle Opera.
Cyn is the proud mom of several shelter cats and has adopted various animals in the past including a retired greyhound who was her failthful companion for years.
