Willy Scott (born August 13, 1996) is an American Photographer born and based in Swan Lake, Montana.
Initially, in writing an artist statement, I wrestled the idea of connecting Words to Pictures. At first, it seemed as though they opposed each other, the absence of one leading to the empowering of the other. I struggled to find, if possible, how they could truly live together. Both forms share the ability to structure the realities in which we live in. Through their respective languages, a transmutation occurs. They enable us to extract feeling. A thousand, or so, good words leaves us with a picture, while a good picture leaves us with a thousand, or so, words. If one is to indulge too deeply though, the other becomes stripped and leaves a sense of lack. So, how to take two unique mediums and infuse them? Could it be that they are actually two sides of the same coin? A false duality? There must be harmony embedded in their pairing. I have come to the theory, that in describing a Picture, we must honor its unique ability to speak in silence. Then, begin weaving words, piecing them together like a dream, a memory, a song.
This union is a composed, yet instinctual act. A moment of Sight wedded to that which is invisible. Through photographing, I’ve found that the tale of cameras recording a piece of the Soul contains Truth. Though incomplete, I have a hunch that it is not only the subject that gives something up. The Photographer must lose something in return. That within those split seconds of Light flooding the Camera, both have lost something. And, in that loss, something infinitely stronger has been born. A Bond. Two, braided back into one. The genesis of a photograph. The vail of duality, decomposed, revealing a sense of Oneness.