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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”~ Thomas Merton
Harness for Self-Reflection
Combining sculpture, image and text, "Harness for Self-Reflection" (2021) considers the tenuous relationship between chronic illness, agency and activism. Object and image compose a self-referential installation and looping phenomena that choreographs movement within the surrounding space. Documenting a private performance ritual of self-examination, eight silken image-texts hang in a pinwheel formation around a central copper cylinder. A wearable viewing apparatus or harness, hangs limp with nonuse at the structure’s center.
Cotton cord becomes the common thread between illness and culture, sexuality and healing, social bondage and autonomous political agency. Interweaving the ‘domestic’ craft of macramé with erotic shibari techniques, the harness binds the body to a large mirror suspended between the artist’s legs during performance–self-bondage diagnoses, reclamation of agency, auto-interview introspection. Performance images are overlaid with portions of a poetic text written in the artist’s hand. Here, temporal linearity collapses as terrains of embodied knowledge are traversed through metaphor, idiom, diary remembrance and real-time narration of a medical examination. Latent illness, elusive agency, fugitive knowledge; raw edged silken prints are volatile and highly sensitive to voyeuristic presences where even slight movements cause the material to flow and obfuscate.
Punctured momentarily when performer and viewer catch each other’s gaze through the viewing apparatus, the installation forms a feedback loop of looking that simultaneously threatens disaster and promises relief. A cyclical structure, cotton loops, and cursive script; "Harness for Self-Reflection" ensnares, a lens through which to consider the trap of visibility.
I really like this accidental shot.
We've been painting our house for the past 6 weeks (yikes) and I've had few opportunities to fondle my camera the way I'd like to. This afternoon I grabbed an armful of stuff — Vanity Fair — under my arm, was getting ready to rush our the door, and as I checked to see my battery levels this shot snapped from our front hall.
I love that there's multiple layers of reflection here; I'm shooting into a mirror that's reflecting of a picture that's re-reflecting off another picture. Whew! And of course, my grandfather's old, well, grandfather's clock which is a classic beauty though it hasn't ticked in 30 years. The darkened picture on the right is an original watercolor of the house.
For the Beginner to Intermediate Photography Group.
Taken in front of a mirror with candles for lighting. And yes, Richard, that is a 50mm f/1.8 lens on my 20D!
A painting with a message as a present from Eva Groeneweg for our wedding.
Title: "Beyond Self Reflection" by Eva Groeneweg (2012)
Place: In the living of our home since June 2012
Artist: Eva Groeneweg, who makes paintings, art objects, sculptures and totems from materials collected from the beaches of Wijk aan Zee. The sea gives and the sea takes.
Source: This painting was part of the collection Eva Groeneweg exposed during the exhibition Return to Paradise together with Stewart Leiwakabessy in Het Weefhuis in Zaandijk on 2+3 June 2012.
Self-portrait technics: Tripod and selftimer. Focusing was not easy, thanks Stewart for the help.
I went with my friend Stephen to record one of his new cover songs at a studio in Riverside. Slightly bored waiting for my time to film, I went out to the parking lot for a little bit and took some photos. Then I came across this puddle...
I'm in love with photoshop and so I decided to play with compositing and I am IN LOVE! lol So much fun! Rosie Hardy was my inspiration for this piece most definitely.
This piece you could call a self portrait. The hands are breaking out the door to signify my struggle when it comes to me being in my own head. The door symbolizes the gate to my mind and how I am trapped once inside it, and I have two versions of me to show that I fight with myself inside my own head.
100% crop from a detail photo of a shower handle. I had "thought" I had moved out of the reflection, and for the larger surfaces I had.
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A sculpture at Chatsworth House as part of the 'Beyond Limits' collection by Nadim Karim ... spot the interloper!
Perspectives Charter Schools conducted a Chicago Ideas Week Lab introducing the schools’ A Disciplined Life® (ADL) education model to the general public, and teaching them how to apply social emotional learning (SEL) in their own lives.
Students led up to 50 participants in an ADL class on Thursday, October 16 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Perspectives Rodney D. Joslin campus, 1930 S. Archer Ave. Participants engaged in rigorous discussion and self-reflection like Perspectives students do every day.
A Disciplined Life is a toolbox that teaches students how to be their best selves, cultivate healthy relationships, make informed decisions and become ethical, conscientious leaders. The curriculum was developed by Perspectives’ founders Diana Shulla-Cose, president of Perspectives, and Kim Day, the chief education officer.
“People will come away with a better understanding of social emotional learning and what students in inner-city schools are capable of,” said Rhonda Hopps, Perspectives’ chief executive officer. “We will inspire them to practice the 26 principles of A Disciplined Life to raise their level of fulfillment and civic engagement to drive positive social change.”
For one week, October 13-19, Chicago Ideas Week brings together some of the world’s most outstanding thinkers, inventors, leaders and creators to present their ideas and inspire the innovations of tomorrow. It is a platform based on sharing big ideas and making big things happen. Perspectives students make no small plans. Last June, student leaders organized a peace march down State Street on the South Side to express their hopes for a violence-free summer. More than 2,000 Perspectives students were joined by business and civic leaders, and the event was covered by some 30 media outlets.
Chicago Ideas Week Labs give people a chance to explore the best of Chicago, through exclusive access, behind-the-scenes experiences that give them a glimpse of the inner workings of businesses and institutions that are otherwise unavailable to the public.
Hopps, Shulla-Cose and Day will be in attendance during the lab.
Founded in 1997 by two public school teachers, Perspectives Charter Schools is a network of five open-enrollment public schools on the South Side, serving nearly 2,200 students. Perspectives prepares students for college and for life with its A Disciplined Life® education model that combines academic rigor with a focus on character development. Despite coming from some of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Chicago, Perspectives students graduate from high school, enroll in college, and persist towards graduation at rates above the national average. Learn more at pcsedu.org.
About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) is a 501(c)(3) organization. CIW is a premier year-round gathering of thought leaders created to drive ideas into actionable results. It is a platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers and interested citizens from across Chicago, the greater Midwest and the world. Its goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of curiosity. For more information, please visit www.chicagoideas.com and follow Chicago Ideas on Facebook and Twitter via @chicagoideas.
Photo credit: Jason Brown Photography
Self and surroundings reflected in a photograph by Alex Webb. Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway, 2006.
reflections in the folding mirror, thats what the line is in the center
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I wake up every morning and look at myself in the mirror. It's cool to realize that a few years ago I was a kid, too short to barely see my entire body in the mirror of my parents house, wearing my favorite pajamas, specifically on Saturday mornings when my mother would quietly shout to me from outside the bathroom door "When you're done taking a bath and brushing your teeth Kenon there's breakfast in the kitchen."
Now I'm here, living in my own apartment, and instead of continuing the bi-Saturday ritual of going to the barber shop to get my hair cut, I learned to cut my own hair. I still watch cartoons, although they're not how they use to. Hey Arnold, Recess, and The Rugrats are now considered old school cartoons to a kid born in the 90's, but Spongebob and The Fairly Oddparents of the 2000's are just as fine.
I remember when being grown was so cool to me! Being able to do what I want, live in an amazing house, own a car, and have a family. Something my parents taught me well... none of this comes without work.
So what is this work? You go somewhere, spend a few hours there 5 days out of the week and they give you money. Of course it wasn't that easy, as I grew up obtaining my first job at the age of 15 working in a McDonalds with a childhood friend of mine.
My parents wanted to raise me and my siblings the best way they could. Not everything was easy, and as a child, changes in human emotion was something I could sense behind a double sided mirror.
I want to have that. I want to see my family's smile as they watch me achieve all the dreams I told them about, yet worried of because as family, they want to see me happy, but understood more then I did that sometimes everything doesn't workout as we plan.
There are a lot of events that I didn't plan to happen. Attend a college outside of my hometown, living in a state without a single family member, bonding with strangers who later on became my greatest friends and distant members of my family.
As I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see me, I see everyone who has had an impact in my life. I have a lot of friends now who say "When you become famous, don't forget us little people."
Every day I step in front of a mirror, I don't see just me, I see a nostalgic self reflection compromised of everyone I love. Their likes, dislikes, and personality characteristics rubbed off on me in some way. If you care to say that I am different and not like everyone else. It's only because of everyone who have made an impact (small or big) in my life. And every time I look in the mirror, I see a nostalgic self reflection of us all.
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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young, a photojournalist, takes a self portrait through the sunglasses of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Horst as he conducts an assessment of a recreation center in the Mahulla 515 area in the Thawra 1 neighborhood of the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, June 6, 2008. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young.
Abstract Series 122 - Lady Lamb The Beekeeper at The Lizard Lounge
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper is the musical moniker of Aly Spaltro.
Aly primarily grew up in the south west --in Arizona and Nevada--where she spent most of her early childhood years, never more content than when she was making oldies mix tapes with a boombox & flashlight in her closet .
Aly and her family moved to Germany for two years--where she fell in love with the German language,--before settling in her home state of Maine in 2004.
She fell in love with more than a language for the first time in the southern part of Maine, in the same coastal town where her heart was first broken.
Out of these pangs and others came Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, a project which began solely as a means of self-expression & self-reflection during the long, dark winter of 2007 in the scalp of New England.
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper writes sprawling, lyric & melody-based songs about lost , true & unrequited love, nostalgia, nectarine meat, wolf maulings, plum crumb cake & mustard colors, death & Guatemala, airplane rides & airplane crashes, lusting & pining, aubergine & almond colored bedsheets, balance beams hidden in the woods, desert mountain ranges, dreams & nightmares, fawns & fawning, & occasionally "The Neverending Story."
I sing because I need to sing and I sing because life is a mess and music is the most beautiful means of communication and self-expression for me both personally and with humanity.
Think about the first vinyl you ever bought, the first cassette you rewound & rewound. The albums that you've cried to, & regained your strength to. The albums that have shaped you & continue to shape you. The albums you blast in your car on long drives or play quietly as you fall asleep. The albums that make you happy and hopeful & empower you simply by entering your ears. There is a grace and uniqueness between humans making connections with one another through the intricacies , the delicacies, the rhythm & words in a song. This is something so precious, and something I seek to have and share with you.
Between You & I,
Lady Lamb