The Personality in Personal Works.

Samantha Sealy is perhaps one of the most honest artists to submit to OH! Parasite, and it is her blatant candidness that makes her work so intriguing. She describes herself as a "mostly analogue" photographer from Connecticut who is "very shy." Since childhood, Sealy has taken photographs, though only recently began to pursue her hobby as a career. She admitted that, though she is an artist, Sealy does not feel as though she can call herself a photographer because she lacks an artistic "bond" to most of her images. The artist confided in her submission, "I've been trying to connect to my photographs on a more personal level lately…I've started manipulating my negatives & I think I've finally found a way for me to feel like my photographs really are a part of me." It is Sealy's connection to her own work that has made her images such a success. Without a kindred link between artist and art, a work is often feeble or inadequate. Yet once that relationship has been established, either through process or material or subject, one's art finally begins to grow. There truly is personality in art that has personal value. You can see that in  Sealy's photographs. Her manipulated images echo a kind of simplistic veracity. Her works appear uncomplicated in composition, yet the marring of the final proof creates a personal, if not candor, reflection of the artist herself.