Sonia Litynskyj

Sonia Litynskyj is an image maker working and living in Romeo, Michigan. Her studio is transcending, and works are often made in collaboration with day to day life. { Art Work } is treated as a materialization of experimental and evolving thought.

For Sonia, the lens, first and foremost, is a psychospiritual tool. A funnel clasped to the entrance of the individual's personal mythos, leaking through the portal as a universal language - the image.

When used subjectively, as it always should be, the image may be approached with speculation and critique. It should form and question reality. It should not be seen as an ultimate nor a final word. The { photograph } especially, should never be held accountable as a reflection of real, but a parallel to what we know of it.

{Taking} a photograph can be violent. Crafting image, as a method of conception, has unique and inevitable consequences. The act of crafting is messy, vulnerable, and cyclical. The image as we experience it through the meta must also be held accountable, recognized as a collective unconscious, through which I find myself often responding to or at the very least attempting to differentiate from.

Sonia holds a BA in Studio Art Photography from Oakland University( '14) and an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art ( '18). She owns and operates Dark Room Oracle, a folk magic studio and art residency.