Pride by Tait Simpson

Tait Simpson's series Hold Tight renders itself as both physical object and collection of images. Apparent and more extended interpretations of the title phrase manifest in his work—a mother in a close embrace with her child on the beach suggests a literal tight hold, while an explosion of rainbow balloons (with a visual likeness to recent Sony BRAVIA commercials) begs to be contained. Whether bound by object, bound by idea, or unbound—the tension created by enclosures that seemingly exist to limit and partition space without apparent reason frustrates the natural desire to reign free.
Rather than creating a narrative from one image to the other, one, as a viewer, engages in a game of search, looking for the artist' interpretation on the theme.

Tait writes of the series,

Hold Tight is a recent collection of images that deal with the desire to tame that which is inherently outside of our control, the contrasting freedom that this control proposes to limit and how these ideas relate to our identity.

The artist's collection of twelve 8.5"x11" images from this series is also for sale, as displayed above, packaged together in an archival box. Limited to an edition of seven, the work can be purchased on the his website where you can also see the rest of the images from the series.