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#saf52weekchallenge Week 9: Documentary
This is the last thing I thought I'd be creating for the theme "Documentary", but in the end, documentary means something true, and this is.
I don't like documenting reality, or the straightforward representations of my life. So this represents the burdens I - we - carry. For some of us, the only way to document our lives is through allegory. To represent the truth through lies:
"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself." -Alan Moore
I found this dead bird in my yard last week, and I thought, I want to document this. That's how art so often works. You see something, you desire to document it, and in doing so, it becomes something different than what it was.
Even through conceptual work, it's an honor to document my life and share it in the hope "you find something true about yourself," too.
"Albatross" self-portrait May 2025
albatross
#saf52weekchallenge Week 9: Documentary
This is the last thing I thought I'd be creating for the theme "Documentary", but in the end, documentary means something true, and this is.
I don't like documenting reality, or the straightforward representations of my life. So this represents the burdens I - we - carry. For some of us, the only way to document our lives is through allegory. To represent the truth through lies:
"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself." -Alan Moore
I found this dead bird in my yard last week, and I thought, I want to document this. That's how art so often works. You see something, you desire to document it, and in doing so, it becomes something different than what it was.
Even through conceptual work, it's an honor to document my life and share it in the hope "you find something true about yourself," too.
"Albatross" self-portrait May 2025