These photographs examine the delicate balance between a person's emotions about their own life. The fabric represents the everyday: the things, people, places, and tasks that face us on a daily level. In one sense, we are complacent and satisfied with our comfortable routine, and the things we let define us. At any given time, however, we find ourselves struggling with what it is that we do, and how it makes us feel. The duality between the contentment and the struggle is something I think many people feel often, and throughout their entire lives.
The same person appears in both sides of the photograph to represent the sometimes, Jekyll and Hyde lives we lead. Because their identities are concealed and lost within the fabric, their personal environments become yet another way to define them.
In two of the images, I used a mannequin in place of a human model. I wanted the opportunity to experiment with an inanimate object that I could project these emotions onto, and somehow show that she could "feel" them too. Her surroundings are generic to expose her placeless and voiceless existence, yet her ability to be given human characteristics.
Still working on these. Feel free to give me feedback. Also, if you're up for modeling, let me know!
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