North Shore City Art Awards 2010

"The Transience of Being"

As is quite common outside of the studio, photography often ‘captures the moment’. The problem is that life is fluid and dynamic, and ten or even a hundred consecutive images can each tell a different story.

The work ‘Transience of Being’ captures this fluidity of life – do we exist in the moment or just inhabit a sequence of frames where we are continually passing from the frame before into the following frame – the past, the present, and the future.

Judges comments

In the Photography category we chose Antonia’s work ‘Transience of Being’ for its ethereal and mythical qualities. It has a sense of isolation, moodiness, perhaps of a cold early morning – but certainly a great deal of movement and that sense of transience referred to in the title.
- Sofia Minson, Liz Caughy and Jeff Thomson