Kelli Van Vleet Pleskac – Bridging the Tiber, Rome

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Artist Statement

I am a self-taught, neurodivergent artist following my instincts to communicate the sensory intensity that I experience moving through daily life.
Living with heightened sensitivity gives me the ability to experience endless complexity in the details of the world around me. Photography offers me a way to slow down and make something enduring out of my heightened sensory processing-to take what might otherwise feel like visual noise and transform it into something intentional and accessible. I can achieve a sense of order and calm by mirroring and layering parts of the original image
back onto itself, applying subtle order where there was none before. The same sensitivity that can make the world overwhelming at times can also make it extraordinarily beautiful.