Bootsy Holler
WITHOUT WORDS grounded in nature
Without Words chronicles intensely vivid episodes of depersonalization — a mental state that involves the surreal sense of observing oneself from outside the body.
The spark for this series came from an illuminating moment in Savannah when I found myself alone in the humid night air. I walked to the railing of the deck and looked out to see my body face down in the pool below. I didn’t know it then, but the feeling of detachment in that moment would follow me through the next few years.
Nature, in its complexity, its sense of survival, and its inherent beauty, helped me return back to my body. When I dug into the earth, felt the sea and the wind, and connected to the essence of self, I found a way back home.
Bootsy Holler an intuitive artist creating art that examines the nature of identity, the reimagined family and the deep secrets we all keep.
Holler has been a working photographer for over 25 years in art, music, editorial, and advertising. Best known for her remarkably sensitive style of portraiture, she has been noticed and awarded by the Society of Photographic Journalism and Association of Alternative News-media.
After a career as a freelance art director, producer, and photographer in Seattle she relocated to Los Angeles to focus on fine art.
Her Visitor series was selected for Critical Mass Top 50. She has been commissioned by commercial companies to design and produce art for their creative spaces and has work in the Grammy Museum permanent collection, as well as in private homes around the world. In 2019 she published her second monograph TREASURES: Objects I’ve known all my life.
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