Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sam Taylor-Johnson is an English filmmaker and photographer whose work encompasses the ability to play with time. The modern phenomenon of the ability to stretch or quicken and manipulate time through film can be seen within her work 'Still Life; (2001), in which a timelapse is created to capture the Caravaggio-esque bowl of fruit decaying. The work is displayed in a loop, capturing the transformation of a delicate fruit bowl decaying into a rotten mess. This piece, therefore, represents the passage of time through an otherwise static composition. My paintings are created to also instil a sense of movement within a stationary, static image, however, unlike Taylor-Johnson's moving images, I have placed certain objects (such as the glass of spilt water) and the miniature artefact paintings to represent the sense of time and movement within my work. this also relates back to Mckenzie's paintings in which the static subject matter represents different periods in time collated into one composition.

^Still from 'Still Life', 2001

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