We shape the personalities we present to the world, performing some parts of the "self" while filtering out others. Despite their fabrication, these "personas" become closer and closer to identity. Exploring the complexities between performance and person has left me wondering, what is the relationship between performance and our "true selves"?
I began my investigation by projecting my concepts onto models, and experimenting with accessories and expressions to convey my ideas. I use striking lighting to emphasize performance, idealization, and conflict. In works 5-7 I went out of my comfort zone to investigate how different types of performance relate to my inquiry. I was inspired by drag artists and Cindy
Sherman to embody persona myself, by exploring social archetypes (works 8-11). In the last few works the personas are slowly stripped away, leaving us raw, vulnerable, and curious about this new image of "self."
Inspired by one's "Shadowed Self", the dark & suppressed emotions,
desires, and complexity of our phyche, 7" x 10", 2022
Social Archetypes; The Lover, 10" x 10", 2022
Social Archetypes; Explored masculine identity, violent male
archetypes, and performative displays of masculinity, 20" x 13",
2022
Vulnerability in authenticity, 20" x 12", 2022
Stripping the Personas, 14" x 10", 2022
Exploring Person vs Persona, 2022
Obsession with maintaing one's person, while having an abstract or undefined sense of self, 2022
2022
14" x 12", 2022
The lines between person and persona are blurred, and we begin to form conflicting "personalities", 17" x 20", 2022
Exploring different types of performances and interactions between performers and onlookers, 12" x 16", 2022
Inspired by one's "Shadowed Self", the dark & suppressed emotions,
desires, and complexity of our phyche, 7" x 10", 2022
Social Archetypes; Explored masculine identity, violent male
archetypes, and performative displays of masculinity, 20" x 13",
2022
Social Archetypes; The Lover, 10" x 10", 2022
Vulnerability in authenticity, 20" x 12", 2022
Stripping the Personas, 14" x 10", 2022
Exploring Person vs Persona, 2022
Obsession with maintaing one's person, while having an abstract or undefined sense of self, 2022
2022
2022
14" x 12", 2022
The lines between person and persona are blurred, and we begin to form conflicting "personalities", 17" x 20", 2022
Exploring different types of performances and interactions between performers and onlookers, 12" x 16", 2022
