Creators Challenge: Lines and Shadows
Here are some of our favorite submissions from our second “Creators Challenge,” which challenged creators to create wherever they may be NOW, and to seek out inspiration wherever they could during this isolating time in the world. The theme was Lines & Shadows
Christy Soeder
Flood
Trying to capture the dichotomy of both the lethal and cleansing aspects of water, and how nature always balances the good and the bad, the positive and the negative. We can choose to sink. We can choose to swim. We can choose to float.
This set was created in my living room in front of my curtains. We lined up and stacked a bunch of water glasses, and shined a handheld flashlight through them to illuminate me and the curtains with shadows from the glass.
Christy Soeder
@csoeder
Zack Phillips
@zphillips22
Kyrsta Morehouse
Isolation
I wanted to capture a series of scenes/self portraits that capture the new rules that we live by in this weird time and also portrays some of the feelings of anxiety that we all feel around it. I think there is a comfort in seeing we are not alone and through any fear, stress, anxiety, etc we may feel right now, we are not alone even when we are lonely.
Kyrsta Morehouse
@kyrstashae
Elena Muslar
Triptych Muse
In lieu of a story I wrote a poem in three parts that accompanies each image in this series:
1st image
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Follow directions.
Rules are meant to be broken.
Pay attention.
You never know if someone’s watching.
2nd image
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The ebb and flow
of which way when
The what to follow
leading back to that windy road of misinterpretation.
Casting doubt on the light within, you try to go straight but the diagonals always seem to win.
3rd image
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Maybe you’re just meant to draw your own lines of intention.
So you can leave behind shadows of inspiration
charting a map for the next soul-led generation.
Elena Muslar
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Ashley Dawson
Purple Haze
I actually shot these on my iPad while on a webcam shoot with a photographer in Paris! She and I were both bored, but our connection was fuzzy, and as we were playing with prisms and shadows I decided to snap these self portraits and edit them myself! Even though these images were taken and edited by me, the Paris photographer who helped inspire it all is @justinehphotography.
Ashely Dawson
Alex Morehouse
Streets
I wanted to show that you don’t need a model or poses, outfits or special locations, to create. I walked around with my boyfriend and puppy and looked for cool lines and shadows while we strolled about Long Beach. Sometimes we just need a lens to look through, so lines and shadows was a fun challenge.
Alex Morehouse
@chiefwolfblood
Larissa Raquel
Galaxy of Shadows & Stars • IPHONE SERIES
“I sailed seas of emotion,
To wander a forest of scars,
I am a dance of
Light and darkness,
A galaxy of shadow and stars.”
— R. Queen
It’s been an extremely isolating time, and it’s been really difficult to see passed the chaos and anxiety. I took this challenge as an opportunity to see beyond the darkness, and really pay attention to the beauty that hides beneath it, even in the smallest of things. These were taken while in self-quarantine, in my home and backyard.
Larissa Raquel
uFreedom Lennon
Nails
So, these were actually just weird test shots from a larger collaged still life that I snapped in my phone. I have been making work around hyper-feminization and butchering it. Making glamorous gross. I never did anything with these images after I took out the bits I needed, but I figured I’d mess around with them and give them a little something new.
Freedom Lennon
@freedom.lennon
