Into the Looking Glass
When looking for a magnifying glass at an antique store I came upon some old brass binoculars and I thought it would be great to convey a story through looking through them within a space. My idea was to do a self portrait with me looking through these binoculars in a basement full of antique contraptions and things under Beale Street. I wanted to portray the vision of seeing the past through a moment in time, which is me. The fidgety look of me is an effect that I could not help because of my process in which I performed with the help of Khalifa, but in a way it is sequential to the idea of a moment in time. I represent an infinitesimal thread in the fabric of time, and the background represents the past, the forgotten, and the abandoned; it also is the antithesis to the wild life that perpetually plays above. The masks cut outs will be in the binoculars.
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