Marla Indhira
Self Portrait - 2020
I’m a Dominican visual artist majoring in photography. I enjoy creating with different mediums such as silkscreen, video, audio, and just combining media together. One piece is a million possibilities and I have learned to allow myself to create with the minimum because sometimes that is enough. Lately I have been working in concepts in photography, where I tend to pick two colors and work from there unless I have the whole concept developed. I believe interpretation and executing a vision takes time, but also that same concept can change over time and become something else from the same root that it was created. The creative process for my Art means a lot to me, because of the mental research I have to practice. I usually style the subject myself depending what I am trying to capture. My vision is kind of shaping the purpose of everything else I will create as time goes by, I feel like I am rehearsing for something bigger.
Sarah Moon and Cindy Sherman are a good example of women artists that use a aesthetic I enjoy staring at.
I picked them because of the colors and characterization of each image. I use someone to portray someone else.
As I grow as an artist the more knowledge I acquire meaning the work will always change, this is why I call myself a visual artist rather than a photographer because why would I put myself in a box, when all the possibilities are clearly there, once again. As someone that has a vision it can be hard to bring it to life and more when everything is so unknown in the sense that sometimes I do not know where this is coming from and sometimes I avoid to dig deeper, because what really is there. I choose an specific someone to act the character I am creating, a fantasy but at the same time there is something always raw about the process itself but is also about them, they give it life, everything I do is with intension even if I don't know what I am doing.
Susan Sontag quotes:
Even when photographers are most concerned with mirroring reality, they are still haunted by tacit imperatives of taste and conscience.
Title: RRR#111503 - Creature series
Title: Niandra Lades and just a t-shirt series
Title: Mila Dolls Series - Photography/Concept 
Title: Selva Sacrada - Documentary Photo
The Act and Consequences Series
Series based on the consequences of one's own actions.
In another version of its utility, the camera record justifies. A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what's in the picture.
I do believe in how worthy a photograph is but also know that it needs time to become. The fact a moment in history, in concept, in stills it is/was captured matters to society even more if its a social impact/controversy. This separates photography from all other ways of forms, something its intentionally documented with purpose and on purpose because it is a need and its also a way of communicating. I have experienced the haunts of taste and conscience myself because its also not what it seems, its not just a shutter. I am so thankful for photography, it is a moment stopped in time that is never happening the same again.
This is a concept of two colors and styling I wanted to make in studio
She is supposed to be a creature with yellow feet and yellow hands bleeding purple
through the nose as if it was coming from her brain as a disease.
Niandra lades and just a t-shirt is a album by John Frusciante and we decided to remake the album cover but in our own adaptation.
Its a documentary photo series where the subject is performing his beliefs.
Series based on the consequences of one's own actions.
The subject keeps hitting herself until she is all bruised up.
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