Join us to celebrate Holly Hazen’s project The Heart Stays Still at NOVA24 Sponsor The Art of Custom Framing’s exhibition space, Elevate Gallery!
Artist Statement
The aftermath of an intense divorce and the change in our family lifestyle altered my definition of what I called family. The relationships I have with my mother and father have gone through many different stages of rebuilding, and I had to accept my parents are people. With issues between my parents bubbling since I was born, there was no choice but to let that pot boil over and burn the view of my family and start a new life.
The Heart Stays Still depicts the collaborative efforts with my parents in slowly transitioning to our new lives after the divorce, and tells the story of accepting new realities. With my mother moving into her own place and learning independence, and my father moving into a house with another family and forgiving himself, I am creating a new beginning for myself and with both my parents.
Artist Bio
Holly Hazen is a photographer based in Detroit.Their photography explores the complexities of human relationships people have with the world and the relationships people have within themselves. Inspired by personal events, they create art to understand and process their emotions, and connect others to similar events that have happened to them where they can relate in their own way. Along with the complexity, they embrace the humor and positives of their surroundings in their work. Holly’s work has been featured internationally in exhibitions and publications, including The Big Picture Colorado, Alternative Processes, Philosophie Magazine, and Aeonian Magazine.