Exploring the Invention of Hysteria
Image can be something I produce to say who I want you to believe I am or it can be something I produce to explore who I am.
Images produced to explore the authentic or to hide it behind the persona.
There is something about how the images we make take on a life of their own and demand an audience. The way the audience interacts with the image changes the way others perceive it.
The celebrity demands an audience to feed their ego. The projections of the audience onto the celebrity changes the dynamic producing dissonance. The celebrity adjusts to become the person the audience demand. They are no longer themselves they become an image of our projections but they can’t perform this role perfectly because they still have vestiges of self.
Only in death do they become perfect vessels for our projections: Princes Diana, Jade Goody, Michael Jackson.
