Work that I’ve been looking at as visual inspiration for my SI. This work is by an artist called Elena Rendina. Her work examines identity, focusing on that of her little sister. She plays with ideas and signs associated with the theatre such as drapes, consumes, and lighting.
See her website here.
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Emma Forrest
Los Angeles, 21st September 2011
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I’ve been looking at the work of Christo and Jean-Claude and the way they wrap landscape with material, changing it completely.
Their work is a lot bigger than I could ever realistically afford but they are incredibly inspirational and really make me want to push the boundaries of this project.
I’ve been looking at some of the work I shot recently and am starting to consider the idea of using wallpaper in the images - laying it across landscapes, wrapping in it trees etc.
Also, maybe my project could be about bringing the indoors outdoors in a performative kind of way: rubber gloves hanging from trees (thank you Kasia!) <3
Need to find an angle and dedicate myself to it, then shoot shoot shoot.
Thomas Jackson’s project Swarm resonates a lot with me, and really reminds me of what I’m currently testing: performance in empty and isolated spaces. He also breaks the boundaries of what I have tested before which is currently exclusive to the idea of the theatre curtain. An interesting find.
Some sketches of things I hope to shoot this weekend. The crit went very, very well yesterday! I can finally articulate what my latest possibility is.
Untitled Self Portrait by Deirdre McGing on Flickr.
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Test prints! Sometimes it’s amazing what you discover when you’re printing something. I think I might possibly have found a little diamond amongst the mess (the diamond being the image that I have enlarged). <3
Kasia took notes at our class feedback session the other day when I proposed my idea. I think that one can safely say that she is an amazing friend (and a fantastic note taker). ;)
Usually when I’m giving amazing suggestions they go over my head by the time the talk is over.
As you can see from this sheet of paper, a couple of really interesting concepts emerged during this discussion including the notion of using different accents for each character, and the idea of others documenting me. Kristina also mentioned the film Catfish which I have never seen, but really need to.
And Padraic Pearce was a cross dresser, allegedly.
Lady Gaga’s You and I video, directed by Laurieann Gibson has been an influential piece of work to me - she too has embodied the idea of the alter ego, and has also lived it in her external life. Namely, these are Yuyi (aka Lady Gaga’s mermaid alter ego) and Jo Calderone (her male drag alter ego) who was featured in Vogue Hommes Japan last year.
Jo Calderone said some interesting things in his interview which really blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, self identity and the identity of others, and man and woman.
Jo is a mechanic from Palermo, Sicily and he has big dreams of one day owning his own car shop. He met Gaga a while back and allowed himself to be convinced to have his picture taken.
Jo also believes he can make money off modeling – just enough to be able to see his dream come true and then he’ll probably retire. As Vogue, puts it, Jo Calderone is too cool to care.
“Mechanic for my dad’s business. This is the first time I’ve had my picture taken. Well, I always helped my dad at work, since I was a kid. I thought it would be fun to have my picture taken,” Calderone says in the interview.
As for his dreams for the future, he doesn’t want to be famous. “I’d love to own my own car shop, I have a bunch of my own ‘muscle’ cars. Maybe if I take some more pictures I can afford it,” he explains.
In another twist, Calderone says he met Gaga and it was her who convinced him he was beautiful and had no reason to be ashamed of having his picture taken. Gaga too is beautiful, he says.
“I met her at a shoot Nick Knight was doing. She’s [expletive] beautiful, and funny, and interesting. I was a little nervous for Nick to start shooting. She said, ‘Don’t be baby, you were “born this way”.’ I took her out after. The rest is private ;)” Calderone reveals.
- Vogue Homme Japan (Source)
