From today’s journal:
Laura’s image holds up a mirror to my own to reveal what is outside the frame, namely me, the photographer. For me, seen together, the diptych asks, “Where are you?” What is your position within the photographs you take? What is your position within the collected personal images which form your on line archive?
‘As far as spatiality is concerned, […] one’s own body is the third term, always tacitly understood, in the figure-background structure, and every figure stands out against the double horizon of external and bodily space’ (Merleau-Ponty 1962)
Notions of place and identity feel central to my practice-led research at the moment. As a Canadian studying abroad I am in the real-world landscape foreign to my own and in addition, the images I am working with are part of an often foreign-feeling virtual landscape.
On line image exchange with Laura O’Brien here:
http://imagesinformingthought.carbonmade.com/
