Being undemocratic with the lens, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer explores the disconnected figure within different liquid environments. Life changing events often feel chaotic. Whether they are wanted or unwanted, the desire to rush through the process of adaptation frequently causes one to miss the beauty within the transformation. Her work explores the indefinable emotions connected with passage from the known to the unknown. Each environment is void of place signifiers, barely leaving the ability to distinguish the space. Pushing the viewer to take on, one of two roles in the paradox – being in-control, or control-less.

The viewer is necessary to complete the paradox: the control-less grappling with their fate, and the in-control with the impotence to alter it – knowing that they could easily become control-less.

Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer (American, b. 1976) a California native, grew up in Thailand but returned to the U.S. to finish her secondary education. She received her B.F.A. at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington DC, and is currently an M.F.A. candidate at George Mason University in Virginia. She draws much of her inspiration from impressionist painters. Her compositions flow and suggest rather than dictate the viewer’s experience. Her work has won multiple awards, most recently the 2012 Edition Contemporary Talents from the Francios Schneider Foundation. She has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and internationally. She is a graduate lecturer at George Mason University, and lives and works in Washington D.C. She works predominately with the constructed image, creating surreal, fantastical worlds that signify the human experience.

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