Decay
May 2026
Mariette Dowty
"The Moral Expense of Gratuitous Vanity"
Creating photographic images for me is a merging of ideas, inspiration, beauty, and intention. As an interdisciplinary student, I draw inspiration from art history, film, literature, and environmental communication. I find photography the most rewarding discipline to express how I see our human struggle, conundrums, duality, and atrocities, which our species keeps repeating during our time on Earth. Equally important is conveying hope, because I see much in art as a call to action, broadcasting messages intending to portray problems and issues that need our attention, care, and resolution.