(photo courtesey of http://www.cigharvey.com/pages/portfolio6.html)
What I really liked about my last picture I posted is its haziness. I did that as a way to illustrate my undefined ideas. The whole reason for starting the blog was to find definition and meaning to my art. Yet I feel I have no voice yet. Well not my unique voice yet. Cig Harvey (see added pics) also exemplifies this undefined, searching quality to her photography that inspires me.
My first post was definitely informed by my academic nature and my last one was well silly. I guess I am looking at all the parts of myself and deciding which ones I want to show and which ones I want to ignore. I think realistically I need to exhibit them all to find my one uniform (if there is such a thing) voice. My voice or maybe the voice of jeni jinx, the vixen. Who is, of course, a persona that may or may not be closer to me than I am now. Haziness is definitely what I am feeling right now.
Okay so the point of this blog is to find myself, my voice, and my way as an artist. I would like to start a project reflecting that. What better way than self portraits, which as you can already see is where I have been turning my camera anyway. Is it a vanity thing? Maybe but artists have always turned the camera, paintbrush, and many other mediums on themselves i.e. Vincent Van Gogh whose self portrait I saw recently. I want these self portraits to demonstrate the many personas, sides or what have you of me.
Toris Amos did something similiar with a couple of her album covers, Strange Little Girls and American Doll Posse. Well honestly she has done this in most of her covers. Personifying and her songs characters who she talks of as if they are identities all their own. This is one facet of her artistry. As you will probably see I will talk of Tori a lot. I will focus some future posts on her only. For right now though the point is she specifically tried on other identities in those two covers.
I intend on doing my version with the meager props and such I have. It may take awhile to decide what I want to show. Is it the one dimensional friend, mother, bitch, slut etc types women can be or should it be more well rounded personas. I will need some time to think and plan that. I also think these posts will be a good discussion point for feminism which will happen a lot in future posts. Hey I have a captive (or just imagined) audience I will pour down my feminist ideas. This is another aspect of finding the voice. Do I just let it all go or remember there is or will be an audience I need to consider?
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