As many puzzles, so is the human condition fragmented, uncertain and so often incomplete. In today's America, where the lines between right and left and right and wrong blur and rearrange, this man stands as a symbol of our shared confusion. Our fractured identity in a nation struggling to find coherence, truth, and self-understanding in the midst of division and disinformation is what this image stands to reflect.
Beate Walden, born in Frankfurt, Germany. is recognized for her photographic dreamprint artwork that blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination. She is included in the winning images at the IPA Awards, the LICC Awards as well as the PX3 Paris Photo Prize. Solo shows in Los Angeles and San Miguel de Allende. Inspired by poetry, philosophy and the foundations of human nature, Beate Walden’s photonarratives blend beauty and truth with humor and dreamlike magic—a horizon into her unique visual alchemy.