In some images, I feel my own journey to become an artist and to define myself in those terms. The baring of a soul that comes with creating art, and posting yourself right out there for the world to see. Still not quite ready to show the face. I don’t suppose anyone would like these images and that is why I created them. Just to have the space to make something I wanted to make without regard to getting ‘likes’ or paid or anything else. I like to use my artistic voice to show emotions thougths and ideas we don’t see everday. Things beyond the ‘happy people being happy’ that comprise the bulk of our newsfeeds. Don’t get me wrong,  I love happiness and capturing it for others fills me with purpose and excitement and joy! But I’m a complex character with a full range of emotions, and there is a B side to life.  Stress, worry, anxiety are players in this modern world and just about everyone I know is riddled with one if not all 3. I want to capture the way we really feel. I capture the happy sunny stuff in my professional role, this is my artists space to make things that are a little more moody.  I was playing around with my shutter speed trying to capture not a crisp representation of what is actually there, but a blurry pattern of light and shadows that makes you feel something you can’t exactly put into words. So here is an image that speaks to the variety of emotions we all experience everyday, especially the darker feelings we don’t take selfies of.

‘Mixed Emotions’ by Barbara Byrge

These images are made in camera, only levels and tones were adjusted in post. No cutting pasting or cloning or stamping or warping was done to my these images.