MILLEE TIBBS
I am interested in surfaces and their relationship to what lies beneath - the discrepancy between what we see and what we know. I am drawn to photography because of its ubiquitous presence in our culture and its duplicitous existence as both an indexical representation of reality and a subjective construction of it. It is a slippery medium that easily shifts from scientific documentation of a moment in time to a subjective construction of reality. I am interested in the space where these qualities contradict each other and coexist simultaneously.
Both cultural criticism and popular culture inform my work. I am interested in how images mediate our experience and how we use them to define ourselves. In particular, I am concerned with the normative uses of photography and the ways in which we are culturally conditioned to act in front of the camera. I develop my work out of my desire to scratch off the surface of the image and expose its construction.