Eliza Eureste

Biography
I am a senior at the University of Toledo, and will graduate in May of 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Art. My major concentration is ceramics, and my minor is photography. I have lived in Toledo since I was three, and I'm 21 now. I'm in a band called "the meat" in which I play the bass guitar, and I hope to be a rock star one day.

Statement
My photographic images are static reproductions of the experiences in my daily life. I work in documentary style, a way of working which allows me to take images directly from reality, freezing a moment and placing it on the wall for the viewer to examine. The situation, place, or action in the image commands greater speculation on the wall than in real time and space.

Content is secondary to formalism in my work. I do not construct what I want the viewer to see; I simply document my point of view. When I see something beautiful but overlooked, I take a picture so others will take the time to admire it. I don't add objects to a scene, only people, and I rarely take anything away. I prefer to keep things where they are, because the natural order or chaos of the world we keep around us is a description of ourselves. The content in the final product is reality, as much as anything can be. What it conveys is a truth of something that exists now or has existed at some point, and that can never be wrong.