#practiceresearch

[c-o-n-f-l-u-x]

Back from the printers... proof copy of A Window on Time, book of my final outcomes #Rephotography #deconstruction #practiceresearch #photobook

[centrefordanceresearch-c-da-blog]

Rosie Kay

Patisserie, created 1999

[centrefordanceresearch-c-da-blog]

Rosie Kay in residence with her books

[alvinlimphoto]

Inspired by the theories of Lacan’s Mirror Stage and the photographic gaze, the outcome of this practice research is a short collection of self-portraits where individuals were directed to photograph themselves in the absence of their facial appearances. The photographic gaze is dispersed between the intention behind this set of images, the sitter’s gaze of themselves empty of their reflection, and the viewer’s gaze. Can there be a self without self-identification, or what sort of identity would be formed without the mirror stage? How much can anyone know about themselves; does anyone truly know oneself? I looked into the mirror and I see me The image of me is the same as me Sometimes when I think of me, I think the mirror me. Other times, I think of me without the mirror me. This me seems to be a bundle of me-self, connected both to mirror me and mirror-less me.