Artist Statement
"Everything Arrives"
“Everything Arrives” is a line from the Reinaldo Arenas poem "The Parade Ends". Arenas describes the streets of Havana with cold harshness; an oppressive reality where free will seems unattainable. Finally, “everything arrives” and he is able to exercise agency in the simplest of ways; he mentally frees himself from his present physical state and elevates himself to a world of “incessant jingling.” Here, in this state, he floats. Everything is open. Nothing is closed.
Rose Marie Cromwell, b. 1983, is an photography based artist originally from Seattle, Washington, and currently living and working between New York and Panama. Using photography she documents performances and still-life compositions that explore themes such as intimacy, communication, and alternative notions of family and home. She was named one of 25 under 25 Up and Coming American Photographers by powerHouse books and The Center for Documentary Studies, and is a Fulbright Fellowship Scholar. Her first solo show was at the Diablo Rosso gallery in Panama. Cromwell has also shown internationally in group exhibitions. Cromwell has recently published work in Vision Magazine, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Routledge, Flakphoto.com, Voices from our America Project, by Vanderbilt University, and was a Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize Finalist. She has received grants and awards from Syracuse University, LookBetween, The Visual Culture Awards, The International Photography Awards, Art/Not Terminal Gallery, and Maryland Institute College of Art.
Cromwell recently completed her MFA in Photography Syracuse University with a Full Fellowship and is a co-founder and co-director of the the alternative arts education initiative based in Panama, Cambio Creativo.
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