(e)Motion Collection

The idea for the (e)Motion collection came while working on a glamour shoot in the Virgin Islands. I was experimenting one evening with the type of lighting used in this collection. Myself and two models were creating some beautiful forms but nothing significant. Then after about an hour and a half they locked arms and one lifted the other onto her back. I knew instantly there was everything present I needed for creating stories; tension and form. That instant has been the catalyst for more than six years of work.

I spent the next nine months developing ideas drawing primarily from dance performances. I was driven by the question of how to give an emotion or idea a physical form. In May of 2009 I rented a warehouse in south Austin and created the set. For the next several months I worked with a group of artists bringing these ideas to life. It was a distilling process, finding a place where there was just enough light to define the elemental arcs and whorls used to create layers of emotion and meaning within scenes. Once the elements were right the images evolved through several incarnations: iconic, athletic, cooperative, oppositional, pensive, communal…

Aside from the slight lighting or darkening of an area there is no post production, meaning Photoshop, on these images. What you are seeing is what was created in real life on set. This is also true for the Winding Creek and Smoke collections.

Short candid video clips from two (e)Motion shoots.