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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.
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!
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.
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!
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
self portrait
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People study with digital pinhole camera. Photographer in window reflection. High ISO for grainy image. At UCLA.
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.
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...
Another fun time with a view of self in compact and in larger mirror. These are actually later shots, because at first I tried to keep the camera out of the shot. However, I love a good self-referential photo too.
So I go into the bathroom (best lit room in the house!) to try that idea of shooting myself reflected in the compact again, and I get thoroughly distracted by the possibilities of having 2 mirrors in the room.
Shot with my cam by Krakote super star.
On that postreatment, I decided to not make skin details desapear.
Delicacy of pride through reflection.
I'm still experimenting with colors trying to find a pallete that i like.
You'll probably see many of these uploaded from me or submitted by others.
It is International Mirror Week IMW
I will be screwing around with reflections this week.
I pulled out my neck/shoulder (again) so my movement is pretty limited.
Ugh.