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Christina Shook's work combines photographs and painting. She's had a long career as a professional photographer, her works spanning commercial photography, portraiture, documentary, journalism, and fine art photography.
For Shook, photographs are concrete, laden with detailed facts. They accurately represent light bouncing off of objects that existed in that moment. Paint, however, she finds to be a medium of infinite possibility. The more that paint builds up and things get painted in and out of existence, the more the photograph begins to distort, and at some point collapses as a reference. The intertwining of the two mediums is an ongoing discovery and practice.
