Ray
or
the eventual self indulgence into the self-indulgent man behind the camera indulging himself (but not really) for his own self-indulgence
Done as a final for my thesis advisor, Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s class “Strategies of Self”, we were tasked with creating a self-portraiture collection that represents our journey from beginning to end in the quarter.
Heavily inspired by Sepuya’s work, I wanted to use a lot of reflections to do my self-portraiture. However, as I delved deeper into what these self-portraits meant to me, I started to create a overanalytical version of myself that served as a parody at the same time. This was the result…
