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"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily." — Flannery O'Connor
Aaron Canipe was born in Hickory, North Carolina. He is currently enrolled in the BFA fine art photography program at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC.
His work not only serves as a means to convey his story from his part of America but also as a means of preserving the fleeting. He poses answers to the world around him in the form of metaphors. What remains is a convergence of ideas with a long, slow drawl. The mystery and the manner, the fortune and the misfortune, the stigmata, and Christian ideals in a secular yet staunch America. The ironic details found in his work are telling of his upbringing.
His documentation of the American South is informational and introspective. He finds religious and nonreligious ephemera and personal symbology in a breaded and deep-fried landscape. His work is approached with a humor situated between the dark and dry.
"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily." — Flannery O'Connor
Aaron Canipe was born in Hickory, North Carolina. He is currently enrolled in the BFA fine art photography program at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC.
His work not only serves as a means to convey his story from his part of America but also as a means of preserving the fleeting. He poses answers to the world around him in the form of metaphors. What remains is a convergence of ideas with a long, slow drawl. The mystery and the manner, the fortune and the misfortune, the stigmata, and Christian ideals in a secular yet staunch America. The ironic details found in his work are telling of his upbringing.
His documentation of the American South is informational and introspective. He finds religious and nonreligious ephemera and personal symbology in a breaded and deep-fried landscape. His work is approached with a humor situated between the dark and dry.