"Why Polaroid?"

"While black and white photography expresses the world I live within, Polaroid's reveal the world within me."

What better way to reflect on emotions and document your own self-discovery than revealing yourself outside the standard eye of accepted or expected mediums? With my multiple exposure self-portrait series I have used the SX-70 Polaroid format to explore spontaneity in both my methods and my moods. I let go, fill the frame and create and in moments the image is born. It is a beautiful experience. Each series expresses and emotes a different color of energy, a distinct texture of emotion, a particular state of mind.

The names and titles are chosen from Astrology, the ancient art of divination and archetypal study of the soul. Each series and individual image is a revealing elemental message of emotion. Each exposed moment is a force of instantaneous discovery. Side by side, they are my living tarot of colors, subtle flashes vividly revealing secrets of a dream world that can speak only by symbol. These symbols are the raw elements of self-discovery, the forces that frame my unfolding.

-Alicia Sparaco