In September, dance-friend Chia-Hui Cheng and I set forth to deconstruct the concept of the "Selfie." The Selfie. Taking our own pictures. Are selfies vain? Can they be humble and exploratory? We often try so hard to mask that we are in fact taking photos of ourselves. And sometimes we own them, unabashedly sending ourselves into the abyss of the internet and beyond. But what are we doing? We are segmenting parts of ourselves. Drawing focus to certain parts. Masking others. Who is the voyeur? Who is the artist? Who is the subject? When are you looking away, to really just look at yourself? When are we taking a selfie for someone else? When are we taking someone else's photos while really thinking about ourselves? When are we taking a selfie and wishing we were someone else? We explored the matrix of these negotiations and ideas behind the myriad of selfies seen by the second, in performative photographic form. Are we honest? Are we humble? Or are we vain?
And then, of course... As dancers..... Chia-Hui and I continued to let these ideas simmer into our bodies as we danced away from the mirrors.
