a mirror of our own.

I was very upset because I couldn't think of a journey my images could portray, nor did I know what I wanted to achieve. Apparently my first idea was discomfort and so I pushed myself to come up with a list of visual changes I could use in my work which was my first mistake because that's what got me stuck.

It was only after Avery told me to spend some time consuming art did I find something that I was actually excited to try. I had bought those little triangle mirrors at the very start of January because their shape really stood out in a music video by Garrett Borns but I pushed this idea away because I felt it wasn't good enough to create a journey. But soon enough I also found this photograph by Erik Johansson called Impact (2016) and suddenly I knew what I wanted to do. The photograph is surreal but warm, and it focuses on the man standing in the middle of the image but because there's so much going on in the image, it almost takes the attention away from him. That's what stood out for me.

As a starting point, I carried my little mirrors with me everywhere, waiting for the perfect moment to shoot. Because I had been stuck for so long, I was suggested to think of the written part before I tried to do the photographs but I found that as soon as I took the first image, the text started forming in my head and helped me find a narrative. After that, I found it easy to just keep going.

I had a lot of fun using the mirrors because, as I found out, there were a lot of different things I could do with them. One of the most fun is actually this image below. It was difficult to take because even the smallest movement would ruin the alignment of the lens info and the eye but it remains one of my favourites simply to me this was the point where I started enjoying what I was doing.

From there on out the series formed themselves and I was left with the difficult task of combining images and merging them with text, although thankfully I already knew what I wanted from them. My other favourite was the fact that without a camera - without getting very close to the mirrors and having the right depth of field, all that could be seen was the shape of mirrors and not the portraits of the people.