Picking up where I left off with Series One, and inspired by the works of Lee Friedlander, I go inside the television sets of Friedlander’s iconic photographs to encounter the blue-lit apparitions that invaded our homes long ago. Who are these beings living out narratives in our living rooms and bedrooms, even when we leave the room? Their lifespans are longer than ours. Will they replace us? Have they already? Do they haunt us? Or, do we haunt them?
Questioning ideas of boundaries, both bodily and architectural, in this series of self portraits I explore notions of masculinity and identity in the domestic sphere. How is identity shaped by the confines of both body and domestic space? Is transgression of either of these boundaries actually possible, or do we perpetually stay inside them as they expand with the universe? As both actor and director (and thus voyeur and voyee) in this mise-en-scène, I attempt to breach the boundaries of the movie screen, of the picture frame, of the home, of the body, of the self.
These images are not film stills. They are photographs captured from paused video of feature length films. Exploring concepts of identity, the body, archetypes, and the inherent ethereality of the medium, I sat in the dark until I “conjured” these images from existing works of art. Through pastiche and re-appropriation, I have created a new narrative that speaks to a collective consciousness of images, especially that of our own, mirrored back to us from the screen.
