Shae Detar

Shae Detar creates experimental photographic mixed media images, using a hand-painting process in which she paints on top of her photographs using watercolor, charcoal and acrylics. Her collection of hand-painted photographs submerges its viewers into a utopic pocket-dimension governed by Mother Earth and the feminine mystique. Populated exclusively by women, 'Another World' presents an alternate reality in which unabashed, innate beauty of the nude female form is openly revered and different body types are cherished rather than judged. 

Utilizing a modernized inversion of an antiquated hand-painting technique popularized during the 19th century, Detar cloaks each work in otherworldly nostalgia, an earnest restlessness for something yet to be experienced yet comfortingly familiar.