Jennifer Zwick

Constructed Narrative

My constructed-narrative photographs are nonlinear short stories. They focus on bizarrely adventurous young girls populating beautiful but uneasy worlds. To create these images, I draw from childhood fantasies and memories, then construct life-sized environments. By pushing these scenarios to an extreme conclusion, the girls become metaphors for our hyper-real childhood selves, where remembered emotions become stronger through time.

(Jennifer Zwicks artists statement on Constructed Narrative.)

The Explorers, 2005

Archival pigment print
40" x 32"

The Reader, 2005

Archival pigment print
40" x 32"

I love these images, they're beautiful little stories on how inquisitive we all can be. Still however we can still feel a danger lurking, We know that girls just cannot go exploring on their own and who supplied the books within the woods? Because of my research I know exactly how these are created for she supplies this information to us - be if we view these just as narrative we wonder, how did she get there? Why is she on her own? Viewing this artist has made me want to break my boundaries and actually step outside. Open up my imagination to create some weird and wonderful things.