Artist #5

Artist: Karin Appolonia Muller
Title: Border (On Edge Portfolio)

One Major positive I can give to Karin his her use of color. All her pieces have soft light or glow a of green or blue to them. In doing this Karin makes her work seem peaceful and at ease. Reading her descriptions of the photos, particular for Border, I don't read into her work the way she intends them to be read into. She describes her work as showing peoples way of fixing the crumbling world around us by cultivating it. I can not really pull this out of her work when I view it. I do understand that the cliff in this image can be a metaphor for natures presence in pulling apart something so solid, but I don't see how people come into play in this. There is almost no sign for people except for the few nature goers who don't seem to be disturbing the place in anyway. Her point is a little more evident in other works, still swing closer to absence of nature completely or just natural beauties in the world. And I don't feel her use of color and light really help this either. Her images are incredibly beautiful and knowing her description behind them, in a way, distract me in a not so positive way. But maybe this is what Karin wants her viewers to do, read into them anyway they like. And if that is the case I think that she was successful.