home

Fine Art Photographer
—
  • Projects
  • Short Series
  • Artist Statement
  • CV
—
  • Project Catalog
  • Blog
  • Calendar
  • Press
  • Contact the Artist
  • We Are not Made of Wood

    An in progress series recreating the paradox between the dying grappling with their fate and the healthy with the impotence to alter it.

    A series of life size photographs on archival inkjet — 2012-2013
    • We are not Made of Wood 023, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • We are not Made of Wood - 113, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • We are not Made of Wood 130, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
  • Inflected Forms

    Inflected Forms, 30x60 inch Digital C-Prints, 2012
    • LinendollSawyer-AP-pairs003
    • LinendollSawyer-AP-pairs004
    • LinendollSawyer-AP-pairs002
    • LinendollSawyer-AP-pairs001
  • Out There

    We each perceive that we are in control of ourselves. For anyone diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable and lifelong disease, it challenges those perceptions of being “in control.” The examination of our relationship to control guides one to question the paradoxes of control.

    I invite people to become lost in inquiry as they examine what they are looking at.

    A series of three variable photographs on Diebond Aluminium — 2012
    • OutThere 001, 2012
    • OutThere_002
    • OutThere_003
  • Entropy

    Exploring the philosophical theory of entropy, I focus on the micro level of change (defined as "what is happening now") and the sum of its parts expressing a macro view of losing control of ones' body. All too often chronic conditions are labeled as disorders – although this can be true from a macro point of view, from a micro point of view it is the mixing of the disorder with the order that creates something new which cannot be reversed.
    I create an emotional experience for the viewer that starts with order leading them to the point of chaos and ending with the settling of something new.

    A series of ten 20x30 inch photographs on Diebond Aluminium — 2011
    • XXXXX
    • Untitled Entropy 008
    • Untitled Entropy 0013
    • Linendoll Sawyer F2011 Untitled 007
    • xxx
    • Untitled Entropy 009
    • Untitled Entropy 0010
    • Linendoll Sawyer 201 Untitled (Entropy) 019
    • Untitled Entropy 0030
  • Luxate

    Our experiences and environments shape our perception of reality. Through them, we form our identities, discover a context for our lives, and learn to navigate myriad of situations. When one is disoriented from an environment, their perception must transform to re-organize reality. My work investigates how we relate to our environment when our experiences fail.

    Video Project, 1:45 — 2012
    • luxate-cover
  • Electric

    I recently participated in the Quick Brown Fox project. My word was Electric.

    A series of four 20x20 inch photographs on Diebond Aluminium — 2012
    • Electric 01
    • Electric 02
    • Electric 03
    • Electric 04
  • Landscape

    Landscape
    • IMG_0349
    • Landscape 005
  • Untitled Place

    A short series that plays with Louis Althusser’s essay Ideological Sate Apparatuses – where the idea (image) needs to be concrete enough to be recognizable but abstract enough to be thinkable (viewed) and that gives rise to knowledge (questions).

    A series of five 20x30 inch photographs on Diebond Aluminium — 2011
    • Untitled Place, house after
    • Untitled Place, him
    • Untitled Place, house
    • Untitled Place, her
    • Untitled Place, house 02
  • c’est la realite

    An Foucauldian view of the line between real and reality television. A collaboration project with Stephanie Booth, which started when we first met and discovered our mutual obsession with Reality TV.

    Video Project, 4:13 — 2011
    • c’est la realite
  • Normally Occurring Antigens

    An allegory of the immune system, reacting against normally occurring antigens in the body. The tableaux are intended to beautify the assault on the antigens by the immune system.

    A series of five 20x20 inch photographs on Diebond Aluminium — 2010-2011
    • abnormal antigen 12
    • abnormal antigen 07
    • abnormal antigen 01
    • abnormal antigen 02
    • abnormal antigen 09
  • Blue Ink

    A short project exploring the introduction of two things in a singular space, and its irreversible effects.

    A series of six 10x10 inch photographs on Diebond Aluminium — 2010
    • Blue Ink 01
    • Blue Ink 02
    • Blue Ink 03
    • Blue Ink 04
    • Blue Ink 06
    • Blue Ink 05
  • Multiverse

    On the surface, people know who they are – they know their gender, race, and socio-economic status and believe themselves to be morally free. But do people have an intimate understanding of themselves at a moral level, forming who they are, and not based on societal trends?
    The floating spheres fill the photograph to act as a focused lens to the figure, signify the mind’s perspective - the "residue" of the experiences one has from the combination of the ego and body.

    A series of ten 14x14 inch photographs on Diebond Aluminium — 2010
    • Multiverse 2010, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • Multiverse 006 2010
    • Multiverse 2010, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • Multiverse 2010, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • Multiverse 2010, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • Multiverse 2010, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • Multiverse 2010, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • Multiverse 2010, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • Multiverse 2010, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
    • Multiverse 2010, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer
  • ENID

    2004 BFA Thesis
    A series of variable sized 11x14, 16x20, 20x30 C-Prints — 2004
    • 018_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 014_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 002_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 001_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 013_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 023_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 021_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 022_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 019_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 003_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 016_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 020_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 024_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 011_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 006_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 005_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 015_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 010_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 009_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 008_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer
    • 017_ENID_2004_Rahshia_Linendoll_Sawyer

Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer—Copyright 2000-2013