How is it that our bodies and character traits interact, and how does this interaction
lead to a recognizable personality? For the past three months, I’ve tried to answer
this question in four distinct ways. Through the exploration of the body, dreams, our
surroundings, and our relationships, I attempt to look into our personalities.
First, I looked at the body in The Beautiful Body— separate from the faces we read into,
the scars we put stories behind, and the distinguishable parts that make us humans.
By abstracting the form, my images make it beautiful solely for what it is, taking away
the person behind it.
Next, I explored dreams in Dreamland. So often left out of someone’s personality
description, dreams are reflections of our fears, desires, and secrets. Through these
photographs, I explore what we see in our dreams and the way we react when we
wake up and look back.
In my second to last exploration, Discomfort v. Comfort, I captured the spaces we pass
through and how we react to them. It’s not just our inner and outer self that makes us
who we are; the places we inhabit affect it too. In this mini-series of diptychs, I show
people in places they are comfortable next to places they are uncomfortable.
Last, I dealt with relationships in Relationships. The people around us change who
we are and how we express ourselves, and the closer they are the more they do so.
For this series of triptychs, my photographs show a bad relationship versus a good
relationship, and in the last image of each it shows a more sculptural pose of the
couple, highlighting the role of the body in our interactions with other people.
These triptychs show the detrimental and positive affects the people we are closest
to have on us and who we are.
Most of the time when we look at pictures of the body, dreams, spaces, and relationships,
they aren’t presented in relation to a person’s personality. For this reason, I thought these
subjects would be the most interesting. To look at the body next to images of character,
but not as an intrinsic part of it, brings to question the importance of the body and all of
the qualities we use to describe someone’s personality.
lead to a recognizable personality? For the past three months, I’ve tried to answer
this question in four distinct ways. Through the exploration of the body, dreams, our
surroundings, and our relationships, I attempt to look into our personalities.
First, I looked at the body in The Beautiful Body— separate from the faces we read into,
the scars we put stories behind, and the distinguishable parts that make us humans.
By abstracting the form, my images make it beautiful solely for what it is, taking away
the person behind it.
Next, I explored dreams in Dreamland. So often left out of someone’s personality
description, dreams are reflections of our fears, desires, and secrets. Through these
photographs, I explore what we see in our dreams and the way we react when we
wake up and look back.
In my second to last exploration, Discomfort v. Comfort, I captured the spaces we pass
through and how we react to them. It’s not just our inner and outer self that makes us
who we are; the places we inhabit affect it too. In this mini-series of diptychs, I show
people in places they are comfortable next to places they are uncomfortable.
Last, I dealt with relationships in Relationships. The people around us change who
we are and how we express ourselves, and the closer they are the more they do so.
For this series of triptychs, my photographs show a bad relationship versus a good
relationship, and in the last image of each it shows a more sculptural pose of the
couple, highlighting the role of the body in our interactions with other people.
These triptychs show the detrimental and positive affects the people we are closest
to have on us and who we are.
Most of the time when we look at pictures of the body, dreams, spaces, and relationships,
they aren’t presented in relation to a person’s personality. For this reason, I thought these
subjects would be the most interesting. To look at the body next to images of character,
but not as an intrinsic part of it, brings to question the importance of the body and all of
the qualities we use to describe someone’s personality.