Lauren Rutten : Photographer, Artist, swashbuckling explorer
ARTIST STATEMENT
The camera has been my chosen art making companion for 45 years. I have a couple fancy schmancy degrees in photography that led to a professional photography career as well the opportunity to teach photography to young people from kindergarten to college level. Writing, drawing, and collage have also been present in my creative practice since I was a child, often realized as collage and book arts pieces in combination with my photographs.
Art-making has always been a healing practice for me as I explore places of discomfort and seek to find Truth. My subjects, whether the body, a landscape, or abstract surface is a conversation between what is seen and unseen; what is wild or free and what we fear and attempt to control. This is my way to honor that we are much more than what is contained within the body, and that our personal stories can enlarge to a universal story of interconnection.