Raised in downtown Brooklyn, New York City (now residing in Philadelphia) Dani Faulkner is a photographer & multidisciplinary artist, mainly placing energy on matters of the heart. Whether it deals with political ties, as is evidenced by, A Face of Danger & I LOVE YOU., commenting on the rising racial tensions between local armed forces and people of color. Or with more inner, self attentive and reflective themes as seen in the series More Than A Cat.
Dani uses her ongoing curiosity + knowledge in clinical psychology, her personal therapeutic journey, in addition to being influenced, perhaps guided, by her mental health hinderances as an advantage to better analyze and question the world. Living through the affects of memory loss due to PTSD, photography, as for many, became a way to remember and re-experience. More specifically, it has become a way pacify and aid the emotions surrounding her own memory, or lack thereof.
There is a sort of symbiotic flow of gestures between the artwork and Dani as an artist: being directly influenced by the tendrils of life, personal and passive, the concept of time and the artwork are intertwined. Each of their free wills and interdependent-ness, through the, typical, use of a film camera and poetry/text (at times including illustrations and paintings), result in the capture of quiet, in-between moments.
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