The sealed part of your soul that…
… needs a striking light…
… to help you overcome the fear…
… of embracing your vulnerabilities…
… and become strong.
For this assignment, I wanted to explore how one can perform using props in front of a camera. In the end, I played a lot with lights and the reflection it has on white- the white t-shirt, white backdrop, white toilet paper. I also wanted to implement movement in order to make it more explicit that the subject was performing. At the end of the photo session, I looked through the photos and carefully chose those that I will be including in these series. After choosing them, I organized them in order to draw a story among the images and write a quote across all the photos that would represent that story. The quote itself contributes to the lie of the artwork because it puts the photos into a context that they were not initially in.
Before posting these photos, I felt a little uncomfortable because I normally do not post my photos/artwork. I personally appreciate more the privacy of authorship because it allows the images to keep their quality as an intimate work of art and become exposed to a selective audience. Once posted on media, anybody can claim authorship and/or use the images to satisfy their personal desires. i have no control over what people do or don’t do once they are on social media.
Interesting point you bring up about authorship and image ownership on social media. Your concern reflects the reality that while we use these platforms for free they are corporations and are interested in how they can “use” their participants to make money. The photos you made are beautiful and evoke our complicated relationship to technology. They are definitely using the language of high art. It seems that social media will understand them or not at all. I think its interesting to push the boundaries of the kind of images we normally see.