Alin just left. I wanted to get a photo of him, but next time when we do the video. He took my artist photo. Different than taking your own selfie. I have problems with most of the images taken of me, or my selfies. But I”m excited to see what he created. He is a gift, I’m so grateful Erik Palmer connected us.a

 

Throwaway Critique

Ashland, OR 2014 I inserted myself into the frame, and used found photos and pickstich stickers but it felt lonely there and no heart here and the critique was too easy, mocking that aspirational self: and then this happened. i happened. In State of the Selfie, I sense levels, something closer to true.

In 2013 I started researching selfies on Tumblr. Found a lot of porn. Bare chests in bathrooms.

hashing the map #selfie I liked looking at the edges, like what’s in the corner of the photo.

Things on countertops, in piles on the floor.

Sometimes, the ephemera told me more about a person than Honesty from a disembodied body.

rollthepunches:

Here’s me

lacebras:

i need friends or weed

lorddishon:

Selfie game on infinite

sick­soul:

Me, hi

sweaterenthusiast:

resume: survived twenty thirteen

hello I am still alive

curtisdondeano:

This will be the year I don’t even feel shit.

I thouht it would be fun to repurpose a blog post I made on my marketing website. IT relates here.

• Objects as pointers to a person.
• Objects as portraits.
• I’m in love with Burning House. Forever BFF.

• Sophie Calle nailed it years ago in The Hotel, Room 47, 1981
• “On Monday, February 16, 1981, I was hired as a temporary chambermaid for three weeks in a Venetian hotel. I was assigned twelve bedrooms on the fourth floor. In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the personal belongings of the hotel guests and observed through details lives which remained unknown to me. On Friday, March 6, the job came to an end.” – Sophie Calle

• Here’s the start of a photo series I’ve conceptualized for SOU. What would this image look like for the Theatre Dept, the Art Dept, the Anthropology Lab? Stay tuned…
• Many brands are up on this  Burning House troupe. For me, it never gets old. Portraits are my thing.