05/02/2013
Featured Artist of the Week ~ Flori Engbrecht
Photographer
"Hi, My name is Flori and I am an artist.
I can’t help it, nor can I control it. It’s who and what I am. And although I’m hopelessly addicted, I’m not apologizing or making excuses. Often, things come into my angle of view that I feel I have to capture for reinterpretation. That’s how it starts. Photography is my drug of choice. But, as with most intoxicants, photography eventually led to the “hard stuff. The manipulation of a recorded reality. I don’t really know how to explain it, only to say that it’s
me and what you see is what comes out....my breath, my perspiration, my aura - what I take in, what I sense and what envelops me is on display. I articulate through my processes and works. The art is my voice, my love, my angst, my joy, myself. It’s my humanness and my spirit in concert with my emotion. Like most addicts I struggle, but unlike most, I don’t want to be saved. I love what has become me and I want to share my love with you.
In gratitude,
Flori"