Victor Ben Tzvi
Woman in Becoming / Photo Poem
Between authentic presence and theatric expression, I’m seeking for a Woman in Becoming – a woman vacillating between her craving for splendour and her existential enclosure – between the longing to unveil and cultivate her own femininity, and the drifting into the currents of the life, its norms and demands. It is a colliding and thriving ambiguity of Being and Becoming, from which the noble feminine spirit shimmers and can gracefully glow.
My poetic inspiration is “to see Splendour from within mundane” – to capture the vitality of a woman that wants to impress and be understood, to love and to be loved – to be a muse.
For a fragment of the Photographic Act, her habitat turns into a Mise-en-Scene, and her authentic being with its sensuality and contemplation becomes a Personage. In this micro-cosmos, I want to capture the passionate moment of the creative unfolding itself; to have a glimpse into the Secret Garden of the Soul; to allegorically allude to the fairy tales and goddesses, to psychologic archetypes, to anxieties and longings.
Victor Ben Tzvi