Michelle Melendez
Self I As Image
Professor Doris Cacoilo

April 18, 2017

    “To collect pictures is to collect the world” Susan Sontag. Collecting pictures as always been much more than just a piece of paper for me. Collecting pictures is collecting memories, collecting the world, for me collecting pictures is reviving memories that I might never be able to experience again. Every picture I have represents something special. They say that we always photograph the things that we are so afraid to loose and throughout my life I realize that’s true because I always find myself photographing those things that I always wanna keep, that i’m afraid to let go.

    The first time I heard about this class I knew I had to take it, and I don’t regret it. If I love selfies and pictures, this class made me love it a little more. I learned that there was so much more to just taking a picture. The background, the people, the way you take the picture, each little thing matters. Pictures represent something and artist decided to use them to bring out a point, to show people what’s happening in real life in a way that they know and like. Thee first artist we worked with was Cindy Sherman and I fell in love with her work and the way she uses pictures to represent women. I was excited while reading about sherman’s work, especially when she utilizes a wide variety of makeup techniques, masks and prostheses to create a truly stunning and grotesque representation of the body. When it was my chance to create a selfie, I wanted to do something that represented women and they way they are seem. I created mine as the way men se woman in today’s society, as a doll, as a sex toy. Because of the way they dress, or how much makeup they have on. I decided to be a doll, more like a naked doll to represent the way men view women, when it should not be like that.

    The male gaze has always been one of my favorite topics and a big controversy in photography and art. “A woman is always accompanied, except when quite alone, and perhaps even then, by her own image of herself. While she is walking across a room or weeping at the death of her father, she cannot avoid envisioning herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she is taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does, because how she appears to others and particularly how she appears to men is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life” ( John Berger, ways of seeing).  John berger did not only talked about the male gaze but he broke it down and showed us why the male gaze really exists. Naturally, the way female bodies were presented as an object to look at had an affect on women. In the quotes which I included in this paragraph berger bring a point that might be familiar to many women. You are never yourself, you are how you appear to others, especially men.

The Campbell’s soup can collecton by Andy Warhol was really interesting, who thinks about painting soup cans?  I was so curious to find out why soup cans and I found something really interesting. Soliciting suggestions for subjects to paint, he asked a friend, who suggested he choose something that everybody recognised like Campbell’s Soup. In a flash of inspiration he bought cans from the store and began to trace projections onto canvas. At this time he received a return studio visit from Irving Blum of Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, who was expecting to see comic-strip paintings and was surprised by the new soup cans. Everyone was surprised but it was a success. I created my own set of pics trying to have my own collection.

    How can I talk about art, photography and paintings without talking about Frida Kahlo. Frida is one of my favorites, her work is just so amazing. One of my assignments for this course was to go to a museum during spring break. I decided to go to the MoMA because I wanted to see Frida’s work in person. Going to the MoMA was a whole adventure. From taking the path train to walking through the beautiful street of NY in such a cold day, to getting to the museum. Everything was so fun.I was surprised and sad to know that they only have two of of her painting, but happy at the same time because I got to see them.

   

When I used to think about images and elfie, I never thought about how much work this artist actually put into creating their work. Learning that a pictures is much more than just an image of an object of something we like or just a moment that we will like to cherrist for the rest of our lives was amazing. This course taught me to look beyond the image, look for the meaning because every pictures has it’s own. Now I look at photographs and painting in a whole new way, a better one. If I loved pictures before now I love them even more.

Self: I as image essay

Raquel Mendieta
Prof. Cacoilo
Self: I as image
20 April 2017

Inspired by Ana Mendieta 

             Images alone are something that has become part of our everyday society. We use it as proof for something of what it should look like. The pyramids look like the way they do because that is how you've seen the image of it. An image of one's self especially becomes proof of your own identity. On social media we post pictures of what we want people to see us as otherwise we wouldn't post it. What's ridiculous is that we don't even look like the person in the photo. The skin smoothing filter that slims your face and nose is what we would all like to walk around looking like, but we can't. We use images to hold a memory that can last forever and it becomes a product we can touch and feel. We keep it because we know we are never going to look like the same we did 10 years ago. Like most images, it speaks a thousand words. We look at the background, the subject of the image, the action of the image, the lighting, the place, etc. By looking at those things we try to remember or imagine what it could've been like at that very moment the picture was made or taken.
               Images become our identity: our race, class, gender, etc.  Artist Joshua McFadden has used identity to come to terms with the current events. He is an African-American middle class male artist who recently had his artwork displayed in a gallery called "Come To Self-Hood." His exhibition consisted of photos of male African-Americans like him and have a photo of them next to a photo of their father approximately at the same age. He then had them write about their experience with masculinity and how their father's influence impacted their lives. His art alone shows what it is like for someone to go through what everyday people of the same identity. To personally see the artwork in person it felt empowering to know what he was fighting for and the message he was getting across. I especially loved the self portraits of him with he charcoal and coffee stains over the photographs. The photographs showed him dressed as an everyday black male each with  different outfit. It was interesting to know he used those everyday objects to manipulate the photo. By examining my own identity being a female, it can help me better understand my own and to better represent myself through images.

Selfie inspired by Joshua Rashaad Mcfadden

               Artists like Frida Kahlo used identity as how she lived it rather than what she already is. Frida Kahlo had most of artwork look unusual, but it was her reality. She claimed to say that her artwork is not surreal because its her art. Her painting after she had a miscarriage was a very graphic one by showing all her feelings into symbols for her pain. Those images were her way of communicating how she felt and how that changed her as a person. Her own experiences became a story for the subject of her paintings. Without those experiences, she would be a different person. With her growing up there were not many female artists to be inspired by so she had to be that light for many more to come.

Selfie inspired by Frida Kahlo

                In the media, images teach us a lot about ourselves. It teaches us to have a taste for certain things that are sometimes influenced by other people's taste. Media can be a way of mass communication through printmaking and other kinds techniques. Andy Warhol was one of the first first artists of the pop art movement with his Campbell soup paintings. He was able to show the art of mass production which was becoming a life-changing thing for society. He was able to change the face of images in the media. His other famous work involving Marilyn Monroe and his self portrait being chocked was made with various images on top of each other to create a new image.

Self I As Image

Rosa Garcia
Prof. Doris Cacoilo
Self I as Image
April 17, 2017

Self 

Beanie, Book, and Babe #1

We represent ourselves in images the way we want to be seen. We follow guidelines and socially constructed rules. We question what is appropriate. We want to show the world a version of ourselves that can suit our needs and hopes as well as everyone else's. We hope to be seen as someone and if we are, we are approved by society. We also use images to show ourselves in a specific version and to provide memories. The images can represent us in many ways. We use our environment, objects, and specific angles to show a part of us. We also want to show images of ourselves to remind us that this is who we are in present time and compare to others and/or past events of our lives. I included an image of my version of myself as someone who loves books, my cat, and beanies as well as having a quote in the background which I attempt to follow through my life. The quote reads “No one cares if you are miserable so you might as well be happy”. It isn’t the most cheerful but a truth in which many people do not realize and a strong form of showing to depend on self than others. In this particular inspired self, I found a connection to the artist Andy Warhol. He grew up different and connected to himself than most would. He showed a different version of self through many images, colors, and angles. One example is the famous Marilyn Monroe photo.

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe

Cindy Sherman, Untitled (Film Still #30), 1979

Art and media teaches us the we have analyzation skills. We make theories and see an image from a perspective we never dive into. We also learn what kinds of art intrigues us and can also, in a form, be a representation of us. Media tells us more about the present trends, social constructs and rules. We use media as a quick source of information and are influenced. A negative aspect of media is the insecurities it brings out from us,as individuals. As Joanne Finkelstein mentioned in The Art of Self Invention, “Popular entertainments encourage us to understand the instability of the social world by representing it both as a stage upon which we act and from which we want to escape” (15). This touches upon the idea that we are never truly satisfied with ourselves and we are constantly changing. As society changes we change as well. When it comes to art,  Art in my perspective is a history of us, if we see a work of art ,although it can be from recent times, we don't get as heavily influenced by it, rather we appreciate it and wonder about it. John Berger in Ways of Seeing mentions, “ The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act” (11). The past doesn’t influence us in present time as a form of living but gives us ideas on how we used to act and what we can take from it and use in present. In this example, Cindy Sherman is well known in showing a past to present development in photography. She expresses the influence of present time within each photo as well as a story. I chose her image ,Untitled, (Film Still #30, 1979), because it showed a past yet relevant image of women in time with today’s issues of sexuality and distress.

Ana Mendieta

Rosa Garcia, Me in the eyes of ______., 2017

Through images we learn about the outside point of view as well as inner point of view. For example, Cindy Sherman uses fiction identities to show a story through an image but at the same time is discovering something about herself. She feels the need to show this story. Ana Mendieta who uses nature to show herself as well as humanity as part of earth, shows that images can be strong enough to show the environment as a part of us. Another example of someone who uses images to learn about identity and culture is Andy Warhol. He uses portraits exposing himself as a different human and uses media to advertise as well as show different forms of a celebrity such as Marilyn Monroe. We use images to show culture and identity. Advertisement is one of the biggest forms of culture. We use images to show an item or idea of something that grabs our attention and makes us want that item or idea. Images also make us question ourselves in relation to the image itself. Specifically in the chapter Advertising, Finkelstein mentions “Through interpellations we see ourselves caught between representation and self-assertion,

between how we might be seen and how we see ourselves” (183). Through images we see ourselves in different ways than others see from us. The self image I used to show this idea was asking people to give me five words to describe me, and all were similar yet different. There were new ideas I never knew I was seen as. Even though Ana Mendieta didn’t inspire this image for me, I did connect afterwards to the idea of she explored different views of herself by deforming her own image and also going back to the basic of humanity, nature.

Rosa Garcia, Exist 2014/2017, 2017

If I was to control all my images, I’d only be representing the way I see myself which in my experience is not the only way I am. Many people see me differently and I see myself more negatively than they do. We are our own worst critics. I can abide to my own standards of the representation of myself but it wouldn’t communicate all the parts of me. I’d only be expressing what I believe and want to be seen as. As self-aware as I can be, I know that is wrong. Images are guide of timeline, I am not the same person I was ten years ago but I am represented in images as that way. The images do not change only the perspective does. For this I used an image of my eye inside a Polaroid photo which was taken years ago, that is still my eye but it looks different than my present face. I wanted to show the different perspective in eye shape and expression and how again the only thing permanent is change. This all ties into the idea that ourselves in images aren’t really ourselves but a part. We are connected in some way and disconnected. I believe the growing of us per image shows the beauty and the ugly of self.

Work Cited

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin, 2008. Print.

Finkelstein, Joanne. The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture. London: Tauris, 2007. Print.

Gabriel Mercado

Professor Doris Cacoilo

Self I As Image

April 19, 2017

Since the beginning of this course the idea of the self has been observed and critically analyzed throughout its history.The self has been progressing in many ways including self portraits, photos, and even the latest trend, the selfie. However, its not the self being progressed that is interesting, its the image of the self that has been reinvented throughout time that holds many messages and history. The first artist we ever looked at in this course was female photographer, Cindy Sherman. She was eccentric and unique in her photos, she was creating an images that didn't capture her in the real world. Sherman was different in everyone of her photos, she gave a different tone, atmosphere, and meaning to her photos. She reinvented the image of the self which was usually just a picture or portrait of ones regular self. This caused a phenomenon known as the "Cindy Sherman Effect", which inspired other photographers and artists in the art world to adopt her new found style. Sherman once said "The art world was ready for something new, something beyond painting. A group of mostly women happened to be the ones to sort of take that on, partly because they felt excluded from the rest of the [male] art world, and thought, ‘Nobody is playing with photography. Let’s take that as our tool" (Hoban, 2012). In essence, Sherman is the founding mother of the changing of self representation of self in images.

From her I learned quite a few things that have altered my perspective of images of the self. We show a part of who we are through our images, even though it may not even look like the physical manifestation of ourselves, it may be the things we hide from the real world. Images of the self not only shows the stowed away quirks of us, its also gives us access to information on culture. Susan Sontag writes in her book "On Photography", that "But print seems a less treacherous form of leaching out the world, of turning it into a mental object, than photographic images, which now provide most of the knowledge people have about the look of the past and the reach of the present" (Sontag, 2010). We can't get a clear image in our heads about an event or place or even people unless we have some sort of visual representation of it, and images from photographs can do just that. This is another reinvention of the image of self. If we have never seen Tokyo, we can see it in images, we can see the people who live there, how they look, what their environment looks like, their daily routines, their culture for the most part we are visually able to see and interpret. We learn a bunch of information just through images that writing can't show us.

One last reinvention that the self image has gone through is the way its used to manipulate the consumers, or for a more humane term, us, the people through advertisements. Joanne Finkelstein, author of "The Art of Self Invention", states that "The ideal consumer as extrapolated from the barrage of contradictory interpolations from adverstising billboards to magazines spreads to TV commercials is a bundle of conflicting drives, desires, fantasies, appetites" (Finkelstein, pp. 176, 2007). This means that society has been feeding on peoples fears and insecurities to create a social construct of physical false beings with elite status and wealth that we the consumer should strive to become. We the consumer are reffered to not as human beings but just materials, it, as long as we can generate money we have value and can become the self images that society has created. This reinvention is not positive and has wrongly assumed a place in our everyday lives.

However, we have the power to control the self in the images we create. We can make them to reality and not a fabricated nightmare someone else has made for us and wants us all to achieve. Images of the self are prominent in our everyday lives and they do wield some otherworldly power over us if we allow them to. Its up to us in the end to change this by reinventing the image of self again into a more realistic portrayal of us, more humane, more advanced than before and most importantly, more of the true self. If we can't connect on more than just that level of an image as material, then we will never change, even when we say change is happening.

Work Cited

Finkelstein, J. (2007). The art of self invention: image and identity in popular visual culture. London: Tauris.

Sontag, S. (n.d.). On Photography. Retrieved April 19, 2017, from http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/books/onPhotographyExerpt.shtml

The Cindy Sherman Effect. (n.d.). Retrieved April 19, 2017, from http://www.artnews.com/2012/02/14/the-cindy-sherman-effect

P.S: I have no idea why when this gets published the formatting gets messed up, tried fixing it no

success, best to read in edit mode.

   

   

When I used to think about self-images I thought about a picture of myself. Just an ordinary portrait of me posing. Now, I see self-image as using your creativity to create an image that you can either relate to or that shows more than one perspectives because it all depends on who is looking at the image. In this generation, every image is posted on social media and are depicted in many ways we never stop and think as to why that person post the picture. Maybe they had a reason behind it, a story.  Andy Warhol's pictures inspired me because it was fun and creative. His work gave picture life and excitement. When I created the picture below I wanted to make it something fun and in a sense funny.

Inspired by Andy Warhol

Social media has taken over the way many people especially young people portray someone’s picture. They might say someone is trying to get attention or even just taking pointless pictures, but at the end the person that posted that picture has a reason behind their picture or maybe even that they just simply liked how they looked in the picture. We try to represent ourselves in pictures in any way possible. Whether it is just us at the movies, or at the mall, or even at a party. We want to show people what we are doing at the moment to show a little part of who we are. In “Art of Self Invention” Joanna Finkelstein says, “an individual’s reputation and opportunities for advancement are affected by their delivery of good public performance.” She is saying that a person’s life is represented by the quality of how they do things and how they present themselves and attract to others. Self- promotion is a big part of this because one must show others how they want to be seen, although they might not always be seen in the way they would like to, most people will portray them how the individual wants to be portrayed.

Social media teaches us to want to post everything we are doing so other can think we are “cool” or “pretty”. Some people think that you must have social media to be able to connect with others and see what is going on in the world. Many don’t remember how to do things the old fashion way, going outside and meeting people. Susan Sontag once said, “a photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a thing happened.” Everything we post on social media is a proof that the event happened. Having to prove to other that we aren’t lying about what we did. It is sad that many people in our generation cannot do something fun or exciting without having to show other they are actually there.

One may think that we don’t learn about culture or identity through a picture, but we do. When analyzing an image whether of someone or not, if you really look deep into the image and try to understand what is happening in the picture many things can pop-out and speak for themselves.

An image can show the artist identity and their story and even the culture of which they are from. In many images, we try to hide as many things possible, especially some women. Some women that aren’t comfortable with themselves and who they are post pictures that show the least of who they are. If we created and control the images of ourselves that we shared, which we do we would be showing others how we feel by hiding who we really are. We worry about being judged and how people think of us, but why should we care how others think of us? Many people Photoshop their images because they aren’t comfortable with who they are and its sad that they are letting others tear them apart by what they don’t like. Creating our own images gives us the opportunity to be able to express how we really feel and be happy with ourselves. In “Ways of Seeing,” John Berger said, “the mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman the moralizing, however was mostly hypocritical” (Berger 51). Women are very hypocritical on themselves because of this image of having to be skinny or these models that are posted on magazines and social media, it is how others want us to look, so we do everything we can to try to fit in to social standards or how society wants us to look and feel. Self-image to society is based off of how they want us to look by only showing us these skinny models, or what we should wear and how we should act. All these things are reasons why some people aren’t comfortable with themselves and are always trying to change who they are and what they look like. Quite honestly, I think it is sad that society wants to tell you who to be in order to be considered a social norm. Cindy Sherman definitely made that change of going outside of the social norms with her pictures. She made many statements by showing others that you can do anything you want no matter how you are looked at after. Sherman had many sexy photos and clown photos, and ultimately she did a little everything. Which is why she was so free to thinking outside the box and taking all these different amazing pictures. 

Inspired by Cindy Sherman

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London, England: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1973. Print

Finkelstein, Joanne. The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture.

Susan Sontag

We create our own self-images and it communicates to others by showing them what we perform in our self-images. The great thing about images is that things can be altered any way possible. People can choose to show who they are or who they want people to think they are. Cindy Sherman is one of many artists who played with this idea. In Cindy Sherman’s artwork, she takes pictures dressed in many different costumes. In some images, she does not even look like herself. I believe that her artworks show how easy it is to make an impression on people. You can make people think whatever you want through art, whether it is true to yourself or not. We create identities for ourselves based on the things that are most popular in society.     

 Social pressure is what makes us into something we're not, media too. We see things on television and want to be like that, "An image is a sight which has been recreated or reproduced. It is an appearance, or a set of appearances, which has been detached from the place and time in which it first made its appearance and preserved - for a few moments or centuries"(Berger 9,10). We represent ourselves in images the way we want to be perceived, but we may not always be perceived the way we want to be.

            Art and Media can teach us many things about ourselves. Often when we see something we like, it tends to stick in our minds. We are introduced to new ideas every day. Looking at pictures and media shows these ideas. Even advertisements help some part of creating our identity. Finkelstein writes “It is a form of communication that reaches millions of people and promulgates shared values” (Finkelstein 148). All advertisements are created to relate to a certain group of people, it is up to you to decide whether you relate or not.

We control the images of ourselves but this does not mean we do not communicate who we are. You can put whatever you want in a picture, but there will always be people who think differently then you. Not everyone is going to think the same way. Whatever you put in your pictures will mean one thing to one person and something else to another. This does not mean it doesn’t represent who you are.

Culture is an immense factor when it comes to art and identity. If we look at the different paintings through time and the different cultures they were placed in, then we can see the difference, between them. Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist, selfies and paintings showed her love for her culture and her support for political causes. Identity shapes who we are, and culture is a huge part of our identity. Many artists only use their cultural background to make their images.

It is things like these that I have learned when practicing the way of the selfie. Some of the selfies that I have made over the course of the semester show my attempts at expressing myself through simple pictures. With the first selfie taken in the semester, I exemplified my inner expressive nature. I have learned that a selfie is more than just a picture; it’s an expression, even if it’s a subtle one. It can stand for your personal feelings and it can also be used as a means to help fight for human rights.

 Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London, England: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1973. Print

Finkelstein, Joanne. The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture.

Writing Assignment: Art of Self-Invention

Kimberly Vidal
Self I As Image
Professor Doris Cacoilo

April 18, 2017

We self-invent ourselves every day of our lives. What we do and how we go about each day and dress ourselves and express ourselves and be ourselves is how we define and invent ourselves. This was how Cindy Sherman created her best work.She easily became a different person in each selfie personally taken by herself. It is through images where we get the chance to become a different person each time. Sometimes we evolve into a greater and better human being and our images become our proof of that. In our images we choose to take that selfie because we feel like it is a moment to capture and remember forever. Or sometimes we take the selfie because we just look cute or sexy. As Susan Sontag mentioned in “On Photography,” “photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood” (2). We constantly take images of our most memorable moments such as climbing Mount Everest, traveling to Europe, or graduating high school (soon to be college). Another way of representing ourselves through images can be through objects. Similarly to how songs express our feelings, objects or landscapes or paintings can represent ourselves, our moods, our feelings, everything. We can easily represent ourselves by a diary (such as I did) because in that journal, there were entries from a 10 year old Kimberly to a now 20 year old Kimberly. The human evolution is real!

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #153 1985

"The Dark Side of Fairytales": inspired by Cindy Sherman

As mentioned, art can be a self-representation. In “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger, he makes it known that “if you buy a painting you buy also the look of the thing it represents” (83). If you buy a painting of a woman staring straight at viewer (who will most likely be a man) with all her clothing off, it might show how she is giving her body and self up to the person she is viewing, which was most likely a man painting her. This stare is well known as the “gaze” where a woman becomes an object to the male’s eyes. Similarly to Mickalene Thomas art piece "Una Tres Negresse." The woman let herself become the object. If you purchase a image with dark, bold colors, then it might interpret you as bold dark person. A great example would be Frida Kahlo, who was a great artist in which expressed herself in her own art work. What she expressed most was the love she had for Diego which was in most of her art work. The media also became a way of defining us by teaching us about ourselves in ways we could not believe, until we can actually relate to it or see it with our own eyes. The media is another dictionary. The media can define us without our consent by simply categorizing us in a group or label with people with similar characteristics or styles or likes. Literally “Likes” like on Facebook or Instagram. If we love being fit, we follow a fitness page on facebook or IG. This simple gesture teaches us about ourselves to what we want to be, in this case, who we want to look like.

Una Tres Negresse by Mickalene Thomas

"The Gaze"

Through images we learn about identity and culture, from years ago to the present. Our identity can be defined by the clothes we wear, the brands we show off, the attitude we have shown in our images whether is a mean serious look or a perky happy smile. A way in which our identity is easily shown through the clothing worn is by the group of people who constantly wear it, that is where branding comes into play. For example, people who wear Nike or Adidas branding are mostly athletes, if someone wears Fendi or Ralph Lauren, they most likely have money. If someone wears a expensive watch it represents wealth, and if someone wears a suit and tie, they are considered “professional” just by wearing both. Identity can be defined by what someone chooses to wear and act in front of others, especially when posting images to social media. When you post an image through social media you are giving everyone the message of the type of person you are. This is how we (and your current followers or friends in social media) learn about our identity through images.Whether it's our images or someone else’s images, culture is also present in each image.  In most of my images, you will notice a necklace I constantly wear and never take off. That is a necklace of the Virgin Mary, which expresses my religion and culture as a Mexican. Everyone else has their own representation through their image.   

If and when we create and control the images of ourselves that we share, we can communicate to those who truly know us. I can say that not everyone will be able to understand what we are trying to say through our images because as the old saying goes “a picture is worth a thousand words.”  As the Guerilla Girls try to send out a message of how there is barely any female artists in the Art Museums, people only focus on who is underneath the mask rather than the big message, As of now, we are controlled by the advertisers of consumer goods. Reason I believe this is because we grew older and older trying to make an image of ourselves using what is given to us, which is mostly brands. We identify ourselves using the brands but in reality we become advertisers ourselves. We can control what we wear and create but what we are really saying is “come and buy this sweater at H&M” or “come buy these shoes in Aldo.” As Joanne Finkelstein points out in her book “The Art of Self Invention,” “we are regularly addressed by the advertisers of consumer goods, by retailers and pollsters, and urged to think about ourselves, and use their products to reveal our habits and meet our interests” (181). Without thinking we are giving them business. This is why I believe we can only communicate to those who truly know us, because for those who do not know us, we are just a stranger with good taste in clothes.

"Read My Mother's Diary" by Sophie Calle

10 Year Old Me

Readings: “On Photography”-Susan Sontag; “Ways of Seeing”-John Berger, “The Art of Self Invention”-Joanne Finkelstein.