#ArtisticTension

[sunlitstudies]

The Fair Archives

Who Curates the Archive?

My name, Dandara, 26 years old of joy. Ibero-Carpathian-American, Hispano-Luso-Dacian, Latino-Carpathian, Ibero-Carpathian-American, you decide.

I have always been drawn to contrast—not just in art, but in everything. Light against shadow, softness against precision, presence against absence. There is a quiet power in how elements define each other, in how something becomes more itself when placed beside its opposite.

The Fair Archive is my way of studying this tension. I collect, observe, and analyze the interplay of tones and forms, the way light sculpts and transforms. Some might call it an obsession; I see it as an exploration. A continuous exercise in understanding how beauty commands and surrenders, how presence and fragility coexist in a single frame.

This is not just a collection—it is a perspective, a way of seeing. Here, I refine my eye, challenge my own perceptions, and let the images speak for themselves.