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I like how there are three sets of reflections going on here. And how my face is mostly obscured, because that's pretty much what I try for when taking pictures of myself. Yes, I like to defeat the purpose.
“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.
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!
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.
Back in Ohio again. I had a fantastic time in NYC and I really did not want to leave. I'll be slowly putting up photos over the next couple of days, I suppose. It'll take awhile, haha.
This was one from the MOMA (I went yesterday). I like watching people interact with the art as much as I like the artwork itself.
Positive thinking, motivation, happiness, self improvement, mind control, organization, goals, affirmations, improve your life in a positive way
A sculpture at Chatsworth House as part of the 'Beyond Limits' collection by Nadim Karim ... spot the interloper!
Major John James Develops A Mind To Fight
“During my time in Washington D.C. piloting Marine 1 for the president, I would think about concepts like leverage, timing and remaining relaxed. Then and now, training BJJ – along with Muay Thai and MMA – has made me a better athlete and war fighter… and a better person. After all, BJJ is based on timing, balance, and leverage… just like the challenges of life. The perspective, discipline, and patience gained through training permeates every facet of my life. It keeps me in shape, offers opportunities for self reflection, and engenders itself to a confidence unlike any other endeavor.”
Major John James
Marine Pilot
Alexandria, VA
People study with digital pinhole camera. Photographer in window reflection. High ISO for grainy image. At UCLA.
Self and surroundings reflected in a photograph by Alex Webb. Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway, 2006.
Kamikawa cho, Kansai, Japan 2016 ... Staying at "The House - Artist Retreat" check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K37sRk6ANc
OK, so on the insistence of my boyfriend Sion (and some others), I'm finally posting some photos of my own here in the Flickr-verse.
But unlike Sion, who has become a very good photographer in such a short time (and also a complete Flickr whore), I won't be posting pics every day -- and probably not more than one photo at a time (this first time being an exception -- with a trio of iPhone pics).
I thought I'd start off with a self-portrait, taken around Christmas time. Sion was in Spain, and I was at Starbucks feeding my severe soy chai addiction. I need help...
Delicacy of pride through reflection.
I'm still experimenting with colors trying to find a pallete that i like.
i know my place in this world. Precarious and without promise and I move forward, certain that the universe sends me treasures that will challenge and delight me! Sends me knowledge, that I must have faith even when it freightens me. Especially when it freightens me!
Intense self-reflection that would be a good way to describe the past few weeks of my life. At least, these days have been intense, and they have been self-reflective, if not intensively self-reflective...Remarkably, given my propensity towards self-analysis, I think the core of who I am has remained largely opaque, not just to others, but to myself. Perhaps more importantly, it has come to light that I am actually the opposite of who I am, as you'd imagine, will fool any but the most careful of self-analyses...