the self-portrait sessions
the self-portrait sessions are suites of self-portraits in
which my two selves inhabit the same frame. This project
evolved out of a video project titled: A child of
sixties television singing songs that got stuck in her
head, 2010. This video depicts me singing popular
opening theme songs from late '50s and '60s television
shows. My isolated serenade is captured as I sing Bat Masterson, Rawhide, Yogi Bear, The Mickey
Mouse Club, and other once popular melodies to my reflection in a large mirror. In the process of singing for the mirror, I had to
take still images for the purposes of focus and composition
and those unintentional portraits began to
interest me as much as the video work and so I began
to take still images of myself in front of the mirror in
earnest.
Later, a video work evolved out of the process of taking the still images, and so I had come full circle.
In the late '70s I did a series of black and white self-portraits. Those images were lost and it was only after this new body of work was completed that an old box of prints was unearthed in my mother's house containing a few of the images from that earlier exploration and it is curious to see the persistence of this interest and its permutations over time.
the plaster casts or death masks too, were begun earlier, in 1992 and I returned to having my face cast again 20 years later, in
2012.
(installation at CB1 photo credit: Jay Oligny. installation at Momenta Art and Studio 10 photo credit: Kevin Noble.)
installation images Studio 10, 2017
installation images CB1, 2016
the self-portrait sessions, 2016
self-portrait, 1979
bronze and beeswax casts, 2016
installation images: Momenta Art, 2014
untitled video
(the self-portrait sessions_Yaddo session), 2011
HD video
Running time: 10:23
the self-portrait sessions,(Yaddo session), 2011
the self-portrait sessions (Yaddo session), 2011
the plaster casts, 1992/2012
the self-portrait sessions, 2010
session one
the self-portrait sessions, 2010
session two
the self-portrait sessions, 2010
session three
(selected images)
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