Camille Stevens – WMU Student Exhibit
Artist Statement
In Pocketless Game, the familiar rules of play dissolve. A game meant to unfold on a structured surface has been displaced onto the floor soft, unstable, and imperfect. The carpet becomes both playground and boundary, turning strategy into improvisation. This work continues my exploration of control and disorder, the quiet negotiations that happen between people in confined spaces. By removing the table, the scene becomes less about winning and more about the strange intimacy of coexisting, two people sharing a game that can’t truly be played by its original rules.
The image sits between performance and pauses, asking what happens when order slips and connection still persists in the in-between. “As an artist, my work often examines the tension between composure and unraveling, the spaces where structure gives way to vulnerability. I’m drawn to environments that appear staged but reveal something deeply human underneath: the clutter, the imbalance, the emotion that seeps through. Through photography and constructed spaces, I explore how control, anxiety, and connection coexist, turning ordinary settings into metaphors for the internal states we try to hide.”
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