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I surrender to be present (2025) Photograph by Rachel Vogeleisen
50.8 x 76.2 x 1.27cm (unframed) / 46.99 x 72.39cm (actual image size)
£597
Artwork description
This photograph was born of a meditation on surrender, not as defeat but as a way to embrace being present.
The sheer fabric transforms the figure from portrait into something mythological, part chrysalis, into something greater than the self.
I'm drawn to the paradox of vulnerability as strength. Here, the exposed spine, the most intimate and structural part of us, becomes the central axis of the composition. The hands, gently resting rather than gripping, suggest an acceptance that transcends despair.
This image is ultimately about the spaces we create within ourselves when the external world demands too much. It is about the body bent in reverence to its own survival. It asks the viewer to recognise that folding inward is not collapse but recentering to gaki strength.
Giclée Art Print: Fine Art Photographic print with a white border, printed on archival giclée fine art baryta paper with a high-gloss finish. The soft reflective coating highlights delicate details and includes a 100% barium sulphate layer that gives it the look and feel of traditional darkroom prints.
Materials used:
Camera, paper
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 13
- Size: 50.8 x 76.2 x 1.27cm (unframed) / 46.99 x 72.39cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
Tags:
#nude#melancholy#contemplative#body#spine#feminine art#female body#vulnerability#feminine abstract#nude abstraction#overhead view#surrendering#black andwhite#intimate portrait
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Artwork description
This photograph was born of a meditation on surrender, not as defeat but as a way to embrace being present.
The sheer fabric transforms the figure from portrait into something mythological, part chrysalis, into something greater than the self.
I'm drawn to the paradox of vulnerability as strength. Here, the exposed spine, the most intimate and structural part of us, becomes the central axis of the composition. The hands, gently resting rather than gripping, suggest an acceptance that transcends despair.
This image is ultimately about the spaces we create within ourselves when the external world demands too much. It is about the body bent in reverence to its own survival. It asks the viewer to recognise that folding inward is not collapse but recentering to gaki strength.
Giclée Art Print: Fine Art Photographic print with a white border, printed on archival giclée fine art baryta paper with a high-gloss finish. The soft reflective coating highlights delicate details and includes a 100% barium sulphate layer that gives it the look and feel of traditional darkroom prints.
Materials used:
Camera, paper
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 13
- Size: 50.8 x 76.2 x 1.27cm (unframed) / 46.99 x 72.39cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
Tags:
#nude#melancholy#contemplative#body#spine#feminine art#female body#vulnerability#feminine abstract#nude abstraction#overhead view#surrendering#black andwhite#intimate portrait