Becoming An Image
Becoming An Image is a new body of work consisting of a live performance, photographs, a sculpture and an audio piece. The performance is designed for the camera, specifically the act of being photographed. Taking place in a blacked out room, the only elements in the space are the audience, a photographer, the performer and a block of clay weighing 1500 pounds (around the same height and width of a body). In the darkness, I use my skills as a boxer, MMA fighter to unleashing an assault where I literally beat the material, moulding the form. A sculpting process results on account of my blows. For the duration of this performance I am blind, as is the audience, as is the photographer. The only light source emitted comes from the flash mounted on the photographer s camera. This burst of temporary light allows the audience to glimpse at suspended moments of the performance, much like a live photograph, burning this image into their retina, which leave ghost like traces. The act of photographing is the only w
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