SOPHIE HOSNA

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

I spend my life entertaining. Through image, character, situation, aesthetic. Curiously, it’s the one thing in this life that I’ve always been certain of. Well… that and the fact that love is the most important thing of all. Love meaning: God, romance, kindness, curiosity, joy, friendship, adventure, beauty, honesty. All of these things are love and God and art to me. All of these things influence my life and therefore my art.

Blah blah blah this is all so cliche right? The artist infatuated with love and its grip on this world. Is it cliche? Is it talked about enough or ad nauseum? I think there’s always room for more. As is also true with art. There is always room for more. Love is truly the only way we can truly be seen. Through the mirror of performance and a public eye, which only reflects back our ugly bits and beauty marks back to us in 10x magnification, we are able to be truly seen by others and perhaps truly see ourselves. Rick Rubin describes how an artist cannot be defined by one example of their work but rather as the kaleidoscope of their work in total, when seen at the end of their lives, and even then it is up for debate that THAT version is the end-all-be-all because the audience will forever continue to morph and evolve. 

I take photos. Which I look at as a dance between me and my subject. We move with each other to hopefully break down a wall that is inherently between two people meeting for the first time or under the pressure of a camera. Photography is a route of a living painting. Freezing a beautiful moment in time forever, pulling their soul through the lens onto the frame where it can live in eternity is a gift I treasure with each photoshoot. A beautiful photo has the ability to evoke emotion and this movement invokes change. 

I embody other things. I transform. Not forever, God no… I’m not method. I just play dress up to the nth degree. Dressing my soul in a scene, letting it into me and my heart. I stretch my mind to wrap around my truth and bring it closer and closer to myself, which seems to bring itself closer and closer to the audience. I search for ways to tap the audience on the heart, waking it up, reminding it to feel to bleed to cry to love to let it all in and out.

In all of my favorite pieces of art, I have seen an honesty that unites audience members, which is what I strive for in each piece I create.

“…separate what is accurate and true from what is not interesting.”

- Jacques LeCoq The Moving Body