Marina Louw

i am an artist working in 3 media - jewellery making, photography and painting.
i have done many exhibition over 25 years and I like to combine all 3 media in each exhibition with one underlying theme.
i see myself as an artist who makes jewellery and plays with a camera.
I am co-owner of a manufacturing jewellery gallery in Johannesburg .
the photographs I am submitting here were taking in Paris during one of my stays at the artists' residence "Cite des Arts International".


Portfolio:

reflect

these photographs were taken in Paris on the last day of my 3 month stay at the artists' residence there. the theme here is the emptiness and sadness I felt because I had to leave. I walked the streets one last time and saw these empty and derelict buildings in the Bastille district, reflecting my mood. the beauty of what I saw left me in awe and a long series of photographs followed. when I downloaded them on my pc I saw that I caught all the reflections in the white - washed windows and that a pink pigment crept into the images somehow.
so, this is reflecting in more ways than one.