Diane Fellows

Introduction:
The portfolio presents Creative Scholarship and Presentations as listed in my Dossier (pgs. 13-16), produced after 2009, as well as works in progress.
   
Processed through photography, film/video, media installations and prose, my work is an introspective exploration of personal constructs of displacement and migration and their public manifestations. I focus on personal and collective stories that are often unacknowledged, unseen, or disallowed by the circumstances of one’s cultural or religious background or the political constraints of one’s physical space.  These stories exist between comfort and disquietude, between home and relocation, between settlement and exile. Structured by my personal experience of the effects of diaspora on family through generations, I find these stories circuitous, moving backwards and forwards through time.

 

The intersection between architecture, photography, and film/video is about storytelling. I am curious how we shape new contexts for our lives within the temporal and spatial condition of geographies we travel through, such as a street, a building, a room, and how we engage each other, if only momentarily. Through my work, I seek to affirm the relationship between the image and viewer,  between place and participant.