The Creative Confessional is a pop-up portrait experience, exploring the authenticity of sharing your creative trials and errors — the wins and losses, dreams and dreams dashed. The images created within the experience are authentic, inspired, hopeful and honest — a true representation of humanity and the arts.

Details

In a world riddled with filters, posed moments and curated online identities, the Creative Confessional is part portrait booth and part exercise in intimacy.

Individuals are asked to engage with the photographer to share their creative confession — the art they never made, the play they never wrote, the leap they never took or the song they never sang. Sometimes it’s less about the creative project and more about the mess of life.

Participants leave feeling inspired, relieved, intrigued and changed. But perhaps most importantly, images are created during the interaction that serve as a pinnacle moment in time — establishing a promise to move forward creatively, often times by letting something go. By sharing in conversation, we can hope to speak our intentions in a way that makes them be or sets them free.

The Creative Confessional can take the shape of many actual structures, from a clear igloo to a barstool or bathtub. Custom portrait experiences and their structures can be requested here.

About the Artist

As a visual artist, my work often interrogates societal issues through unique perspective and interpretation. With a background in advertising strategy, research and audience insights, I am constantly navigating toward the intersection of the artist/artwork and its audience: where can the two meet in order to create the greatest impact?

My style of work ranges from collage and mixed media to photography and installation but crucial to my growth as an artist is the ability to engage a community or offer a voice to topics requiring deeper conversation — our nation’s youth, the ongoing political divide, and gun violence in American schools to name a few.

I believe in the power of art to communicate emotion, ideals, concepts and disruptive thought to audiences of all ages and backgrounds. I believe producing work that is accessible and provides an opportunity to engage, creates immeasurable and lasting impressions.

You can find more of my work, including custom commissions at jamimilne.com.