Caroline Elizabeth Savage, photographer and filmmaker, has BFA and MFA degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute in Fine Art Photography and Filmmaking. She uses celluloid in still and time-based media, hand-processing to constantly refer to the material and the present space.Her digital work explores the illusions of space, time and dimensionality. The Cocoon Series explores how capturing natural materials, preserves and embalms them in transparent layers, referring to suffocation and trompe l’oeil painting.
Her first photographic focus lies with the natural world, seeking the light that reveals the patterns in nature and capturing the uniqueness in our world, in film, digital video and photographic stills.Her images of people are intimate, glowing and powerful. Her landscapes are painterly, layered and mysterious. Her series on handkerchiefs reveals the extraordinary detail of fabric, light and color. The Cocoons re-present the natural beauty of materials in a veiled, yet sharply focused plane, hanging in a trompe l’oeil space.
