Jodi Anderson

medium: photography

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Contact information
Artist resides in: Sauk City, WI
Email Address: sonotcool@gmail.com
Web site: www.jodianderson.com

Artist statement
Jodi is eternally attempting to capture what she sees in both the physical world and in her mind.

The subcelestial surroundings are so beautiful in Wisconsin--the natural etchings, the man-made nostalgic relics, the local people in candid--that it could make her cry if she stops to think about it. Instead of stopping to think, Jodi snaps photos with her camera and holds the pictures tight.

Also an illustrator in her mind, Jodi attempts to recreate what she dreams up with experimental photography through the use of costumes, props, natural monochromatic backgrounds and the vivid contrast that is life on planet Earth. She has embarked on a number of projects related to this including "unmasked" and "girl," one of which is open-ended and the other will close when her daughter turns 18 in June of 2010.

Biography
Jodi Anderson was born two blocks from the Wisconsin River, and she now lives eight blocks from the banks of the same river with her husband and daughter. She grew up walking creek and river banks, trekking prairies and searching the woods. She lived in the country, walked trap lines, cleaned venison and ate squirrel. This past continues to shape who she is yet today. Never settling on one form of expression, Jodi writes poems and vignettes; has authored her own blog for eight years and occasionally contributes to those of others; stamps what she sees with photography; records ambient sounds; and tries to take a bit of video every day. Her motto is to seek beauty in the mundane. Two quotes govern her life: "The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that self-dialogue" (Stanley Kunick) and "I decided to accept as true my own thinking" (Georgia O'Keefe).