Jennilee Marigomen

Jennilee Marigomen: Breathe !

She's not

I was looking NICH HANCE MCELROY's blog where I found some really interesting artworks. I especially discovered the photographer JENNILEE MARIGOMEN and I have to say that her work blew me away.

She doesn't take pictures to show how spectacular is the world, it is not about the intensity of the moment. She's not trying to damage your eyes permanently with crazy colors, she's not trying to show how great she is in using the subject only as a support of her genius.

Among talented photographers, sometime I suffocate

My viewpoint is encumbered by the aggressiveness of talented photographers.Among these one who have a really high level of technical skills like a NASA engineer in order to make spectacular images, or these other ones who have a complexity of concept that only an austere german philosopher can get, or these ones who are mentally disturbed and who are no ashamed to show it at the face of the world, among all of them I feel sometime like a tourist harassed by umbrella sellers in a rainy day....

Jennilee Marigomen: Breathe !

It is a real relief to look at Jennilee Marigomen's artwork, the simplicity of her pictures respect the ability of your heart in being touched by them. I like to be considered as a sensitive person who doesn't need saucy colors for being attracted and who doesn't need complex compositions to be pensive. There is enough space in her photographs to bring your own thoughts, your own mood and begin a conversation with Jennilee's thoughts. Finding the right balance between the extreme heat of the volcanic expression and the siberian coldness of the neutrality who has no soul is not an easy thing. In doing that you can easily be tepid which is the nightmare of the artist. In looking at Jennilee's pictures you can "sentir l' odeur de la pierre mouillée" (GUSTAVE FLAUBERT), you can feel the heat from a ray of sunshine during the spring, you can feel all these kind of delicate things that come when you give them time and space, and finally you can breathe !