Introducing Grant Worth as featured in I don’t really know what kind of girl I am curated by Jody Quon.
 
 

 
In St. Ann’s Warehouse, as part of Jody Quon’s, I don’t really know what kind of girl I am, GRANT WORTH’S Polaroids are horizontally hung like a well-written line on a typewriter. In each image, someone is wearing an elaborate mask, costume optional, and after seeing them, you feel like you’ve missed out on a good party.
 
“Sometimes it’s like I’m wearing goggles and pulling the magic out of the everyday,” he says. “Other times, I’m trying to tell a story that resonates more tangibly, something inherently human.”
 
After viewing Worth’s website, www.missionfantastic.com, where he displays many of his Polaroid scenarios, you wish they were chalk drawings that you could jump into, á la Mary Poppins. “I love costumes and characters, creating new worlds, and reshaping the one that we happen to live in. I’m attracted to color, light, and patterns. There are a lot of palm trees and paradise paraphernalia in my photos.”
 
The Wisconsin native then cites a kinship to furry creatures of the night. “Sometimes I feel like a raccoon or a raven looking for shiny things to tuck away,” he says, which is what he’s doing with his pictures. “I hope that people can look at my images and identify the paradise that exists in all of us. And that they serve as stepping stones toward a lighter state of being.”

—Tami Mnoian