Feature Artist -- Margot Quan Knight

Feature Artist: Margot Quan Knight

Nest from the "Taking Care" collection.

"My photographs use fantasy to trim away the fat of reality, to expose possibilities," says artist Margot Quan Knight, whose images vary from humorous, absurd, and whimsical to surreal, lonely, and haunting. She graduated from Dartmouth University in 1999, and has already had nine solo shows and her work has appeared in more than sixty publications. We are featuring five of her images for this issue of Susurrus, including the cover image, "Alone."

Her work is a textbook example of, to borrow a line from our submission guidelines, "the human condition in speculative situations," and the result is a complex mixture of emotions that appears very alien at first, but depicts a depth of emotions, thoughts, and experiences that are compeletely human, even if it's to remind us that sometimes we ourselves are the aliens.

She has seven bodies of photographic and/or photomanipulation work on her website, and though the work displays a wide variety of content and tone, there is a consistency that makes all the themes come together into one cohesive body.

Margot has recently had work in a group show called "Trust" at The Red Dot in Singapore. She spoke April 21-23 at Flash in the Can, a technology and design festival in Toronto, and she has a new series called Procreation (created in 2005) online here and on her website.

You can contact her and view many more of her images at www.margotknight.com.

	Aftermath One From the "Taking Care" collection. "I considered whether caring for someone can be enough, or not, the calm feeling after falling apart, and the importance of loving and protecting one's self."
	Alone From the "Taking Care" collection.
	Buttons From the "Fabrica" collection. "I draw from the realm of art ... [and] my parents' medical textbook "Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation," trees coated from sleeping butterflies, seizures between a gunshot and death, and lemon flavored ants...."
	Bread From "The Garden" collection.
	Pigeons From the "Fabrica" collection. "[I see] the wonders of reality. However, to see the world is also to see broken places, chemicals in the water, hungry people."

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