Virginia Ferrara
Virginia Ferrara‘s work explores images often ignored during our daily routines to capture the transient moment. She lives in Coral Gables and Jacksonville, Florida, where the genre figurative work reflects the tropical yet urban flavor of the surroundings. The day images contrast with the night images to reflect the duality of the day life to that of the night inspired by salsa, bachata, and other Latin dance scenes. The series explores the moods and emotions inspired by natural daylight scenes versus artificial night light environments.
“As a child, I was saddened by the realization that most moments were lost after a lapse of time, and relatively few memories remained to link oneself to a history. To retain more from the constant death of past seconds, I pretended my eyes were lenses from a camera and would burn arbitrary images combined with a mental association. A fleeting image of a blurry cluster of tall trees while on a family vacation is now permanently associated with the essence of youth. The transient, often overlooked moment is the theme of my current work. I challenge myself to select scenes from my everyday life that I may normally tune out as subject matter to avoid patterns of selective seeing. Our preconceived ideas are often distorted, and only with an open-minded observation can one fully appreciate the layers of depth in any given second. Currently living in the urban/suburban areas, the subject matter has been tackled in my daily life. There is a universal nature to the routine in our lives, and I hope to bring forth a new perspective to those forgotten moments that consist of the majority of our life.” -Virginia Ferrara
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