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Sean Mundy is a photographer and digital artist from Montréal, Canada. From a young age he was always very creative. He was interested in making things – first it was drawing, then it was writing, then music, and eventually he settled on photography and visual art (while still dabbling in music). His parents purchased a very small/cheap digital camera for him when he was about 15 for a school trip, and slowly but surely after that trip he began to use the camera more and more and eventually began doing more creative work alone, which led up to the work he does today.
I do not really have a singular cohesive message I am trying to convey through all of my artworks, it varies by piece and oftentimes, there isn’t an explicit message. Some images will touch on themes of isolation, loneliness, the power of persuasion and groupthink, learned helplessness, whereas other images are intended to be more strictly formal, showcasing shapes and colours and forms.
Fire as a symbol can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people depending on the context it is shown in, and for my work that is almost always the case and the most important part. In some images, the fire is just a surreal/dramatized way of showing something being blocked, obstructed, or divided; the symbol “could” have been something else, but that was the symbol I chose to use. Other times, fire can be used more literally as a destructive force, it truly all depends on the image and the context.
Red is one of my favourite colours because of how *loud* it is, and all the baggage it brings to an image just by its presence. It can symbolize violence, an impending threat, romance and love, it really depends. I try to not use it too much just in case it can become repetitive, since it definitely is a powerful colour to include in an image.
Loneliness is not something that people choose, so I would not call it a weakness. At the same time, I do not know if calling it a “strength” makes the most sense either. However I think going through a period of loneliness will likely imbue a person with more strength in the long run as they have had an undesirable experience and if they do not want to experience it again, they will have to change something in their lives or about themselves, they will have to grow.
It would if I did more singing, but unfortunately I do not do very much singing lately, mostly because I am focused on finishing photo pieces and maintaining my momentum creating photographs/images – I will definitely do more singing and create music once I create a certain amount of images over the summer before the nice weather leaves us here in Montreal.
I find that boundaries or confines can often help inspire you actually; without them, anything is a possibility, and that sometimes can be too overwhelming. If you limit yourself a little bit, you now have guardrails and you know where the edge of what you can do is. As an artist I am very lucky in that, I am often very inspired, I can not really “turn off” my creative brain, so for me being productive is just a matter of finding ways to keep that inspiration tamed to certain areas where it can perform at its peak and meet motivation and drive to allow me to make great work.
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