Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor  "Twilight Swim"  2004

I am very impressed with Maggie Taylor's technique.  Using digital manipulation, she creates pictures that are at once antique yet contemporary, and psychological yet soulful.

Comments

[Pete Kane]

This picture is very beautiful, and very enigmatic. The sharks are jokes, the equivalent of someone going incognito by wearing those plastic nose-glasses-moustache disguises. The woman isn't swimming at all, looks pained, and her dress is diaphanous when submerged. Also, the light is wrong: the sun is setting in the background but the woman's face is lit up and the fish's shadow is behind it, as if she's facing another light source. The edge of the surface of the water looks like it's up against a tank or a window. Perhaps the joke or hoax of the painting is that she's on display (which might explain her expression) rather than enjoying a quiet (if eerie) swim, and her underwater translucency is a reflection of that, of the viewer's eye "seeing through" the prank...?

I'm interested in how you read this, Phantasmaphile.

[Pam]

Well put, Pete. To me, it also alludes to the idea of a mermaid or sea nymph. Some kind of hybrid creature that's bisected (note the placement of the water line) or somehow dual-natured. It's an extraordinary picture, and I'm glad you like it.

[chamyriam]

i am doing a project for my 8th grade photography class at allapattha middle in miami fl on jerry n.ulemann and it led me 2 discover that maggie taylor is his wife so i wanted to find out what is her style so i searched her picture i found this picture and was very supprise there is things wrong ike the shadow and what is up with the fish and its fake fin