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Artist: Jaeda Dewalt
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Jaeda DeWalt is a self-taught photographic artist and poet. In “real life” she tends to be a very private, solitary and reclusive creature. She loves unraveling the mysteries of the human spirit. She creates self-portraits, dreamscapes, survivor art, spiritual art, fine art figuratives, pride art, and art for womyn.
“Images . . . poetry . . .words . . .they can offer us a feeling, an experience and the magical gift of transport.
I want my imagery to give people a way to express themselves, to offer them a moment of magic and wonder, I want to ignite their imagination, emotions and give them a sense of connection.
It is my hope that my images can serve to be a connecting factor in the universal thread we share.”
About Jaeda DeWalt:
This self taught artist discovered her passion of photography, back in 1995, while writing her first book Haunting Hands. Initially intended to be a collection of poems she had written about surviving incest. She decided it would feel more personal if she created the cover for the book herself. Shortly thereafter she purchased a camera and turned her living room into a makeshift studio. She did a series of self-portraits and then another and another. The process of creating and putting herself in front of the camera felt cathartic, liberating and healing.
The photographic medium opened up a whole new world to her and ignited a kind of passion within that she didn’t even know she was capable of experiencing. Her book transformed into a photographic essay and that started her down the path to becoming a photographic artist.
In her early years, photography was a safe place to store her pain, to express it, try and make it pretty . . . it was a way to continually feed her need for validation . . . and, in some strange way, to prove her existence. Her early years were full of abusive relationships, self-destructive behaviors, severe/chronic illnesses and living a very unstable life as she tried to find her way out of perpuating the role and label of "victim". She created from a place of destruction and chaos.
In more recent years she turned to holistic medicine, stopped her destructive behaviors and adopted a stable, healthy lifestyle to include veganism, yoga and spiritual connection. She credits Beauty for Ashes for her renewed spirit and for the peace and good health she now enjoys. Her most recent work comes from a stable place and a desire to create art for purposes of inspiration, healing and connection.
She has produced cover art for books, playbills, collective fine art books and has had several exhibits of her work in New York, including the Hofstra Museum.
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