
“Beauty is the thing we are all searching for. Whatever beauty is, I feel it, and as long as I can I shall try to put it down so others can see what I have seen.” — Eyvind Earle
Inspired by my love of artists, this project examines the human capacity for connection. The challenge: photographically evoking a bit of the subjects' artistic essence after mere minutes of making their, and their work's, acquaintance. The required expeditiousness yielded unflinching instant collaborations and unusual vulnerability, as well as more than one instance of hesitant trust — or of extraordinary complicity and joy.
Artists (Also) Look Like This
Environmental Portraits of Artists











Carlos Silva, Woodworker
Angela Derosette, Painter & (Former) Fashion Designer
Rex Kare, Sculptor & Painter
Beth Sperandio, Painter
Vinnie Massaro, Assemblage Artist
Carlos Silva, Woodworker
Trevor Corp, Woodworker
Vinnie Massaro, Assemblage Artist
Beth Sperandio, Painter
Angela Derosette, Painter & (Former) Fashion Designer
Rex Kare, Sculptor & Painter
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Dance may be synonymous with motion, but its eloquence, for me, is to be found in its stillness. The single frame reveals the poetry in the unlikely: pauses, transitions, joints, even bones. Shot during rehearsals without the enhancements of costume and lighting design, the dance is stripped to the essentials, laying bare the resounding resonance of a body set into motion but caught still — and how it echoes in the silence.
Shadows in The Dark
Dancers from the Houston Met Dance Company










Extensor Digitorum – “Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there.”
Flexor Digitorum Superficialis – “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you truly love.”
Flexor Digitorum Longus – “The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.”
Flexor Hallucis Longus – “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
Fibularis Longus – “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
Medial Plantar Fascia – “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”
Flexor Carpi Radialis – “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
Lumbricalis Manus – “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad.”
Abductor Digiti Minimi Manus – “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
Adductor Pollicis – “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” (quotes from Rumi poems)
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Emerging from the dark like faraway memories, these images are a fantasy of place — magical, brightly colored and candy-sweet — that takes a cue from children’s storytime to playfully hide the cautionary tale within the fairy tale.
Once Upon A Time...
Playgrounds in The Night


















Blue Dome - I Spy With My Little Eyes Not A Soul In Sight
Musical Slides - Only Their Songs Spoke The Truth
Basket Wheels - The Aliens Beamed Them Up
Eel Caves - Beastliness Overturned Gentility
Red Jacket - Flesh-Eating Bacteria Gobbled Them Up
Obstacle Ropes - They Got Trapped In The Red
Globe Mosaic - The Colored Ones Were Silenced
Viral Dots - The Plagues Made A Comeback
Dino Town - Primitive Attitudes Ran Amock
Slidin' Gator - Crocodile Said 'No' To Crossing The River, But They Tried Anyway
Rockin' Horse - Hi-Yo Red Rode Empty-Saddled Into Ghost Town
Staring Contest (Diptych) - Waging War To The Death, No One Won
Cubist Truck - They Found Train Wrecks Mesmerizing
Yellow Steppin' - Their Way Up The Climb Was Toxic
Three Slides - The More Colorful They Were, The More Invisible They Became
Golden Arches - Mystery Meat Did Them All In
Kids Only - They Grew Bigger But Not Up
Sunbeam Pride - What's Left For Proof They Once Were
- 01/18
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Look. Up above. They’re there and therefrom they beckon, waving you over for an intimate interlude, promising their tales: stories from behind walls designed to keep them hush; from behind windows that crop a tantalizing phrase from the whole. You need only hear between the lines. So listen. Listen up.
Listen Up
Drying-Line Sheets of Venice, Italy








Joyful One
Pure One
Happy Kid
Enthusiastic One
Huffy Old Gal
Tall Tales Dude
The Mafiosi
Musical One
- 01/08
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Coming Soon
This project is still in the works. Check back for updates.

ABOUT
Sylvia Paret, a San Francisco-based artist, studied photography at the Corcoran School of Art, the International Center for Photography, and the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she was offered a merit scholarship and from where she holds an associate degree. She also holds a Johns Hopkins University honors B.A. in natural sciences and French language and literature, and undertook doctoral studies in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania as a National Science Foundation scholar. The underlying theme in all of her work is connection, as well as the lack thereof, and a recurring method — partly deriving from Dadaist and Surrealist influences, along with her Catalan heritage — irreverent playfulness. Her take on those movements is far more lighthearted, though still tongue-in-cheek:
winking at the viewer, hoping for complicity.
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