Memoirs Through Anatomy
With this project, I wanted to work with portraiture in a way I haven't really investigated before, focusing on the idea that people tend to wear or carry their histories or parts of themselves around with them on or in their bodies. In that way, I think it is perhaps a spin-off of the environmental portrait, in which the environment is actually the physical person themselves as opposed to their surroundings. Or perhaps one can think of it as the marks and impressions left on the body by their surroundings throughout the lifetime.
I also wanted to create an interactive experience with it; I believe that idea came from the metaphor I had in my mind of the landmarks or lanscape of the body or the body as a roadmap through one's personal history. As such, the portraits actually consist of several photographs, an "overall" view (the roadmap, if you will, which doubly serves as the image map and navigation on the site), a number of more close-up, intimate views (portraits of parts of the whole), and the spoken narrative provided by the subject him/herself in the audio.
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