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No visualization necessary. This functions on a few different levels, I'm not sure whether to continue with a commentary or give you a call. You're rocking my world like only you can, Kris. effective.
Yes perhaps this representation of me is an alternate ego of mine one of the id, ego or superegos of sorts. An identity versus identity confusion.
I am reluctant to comment/critique this image.
I have mixed feelings for it, one perhaps because it is a total fake, forgive me if not or two it is to emotional for me to divulge into your world when i have a world of problems myself. In any case I have strong feelings when viewing the image.
p.s. i think i have your white scarf?
it does seem over dramatic but regarless it is a true emotion we have all felt like that but there's somehting about it that makes me feel nothing. i think it gets accross who you are though and it is an origanl idea/presentation.
My first thought is that I really like the web-cam aesthetic. I'm not much of one for text in images, but I'm starting to make an exception here because the text is incomplete and seems to be coming from a real source that wasn't specifically for the photograph but for the spiral notebook.
This is hard for me to look at in a way. It is like when you see photographs of crying children in some war-torn country and you feel sorry but also a disconnect, as if they are not real people but actors. I think this is because we can't really understand their plight, but here we can because we know the individual. It might be ironic then if this is a created scene as opposed to the crying children pictures.
I like how it is a documentary photograph of your self-portrait photographs. I think it makes me believe the emotions more.
Part of me thinks there should be less takes--maybe 3-4. But when i link to the image page and have to scroll through the images and text I think its good to have repetitive ones. Have you seen the video for Nick Cave's "into my arms"? These takes made me think of that - intense, genuine crying with no finite explanation.
Kristin thanks for sharing this with us.
I think for people who know you this is a real self-portrait and not just a visualization of a person in trouble. You tried to distance yourself from this with the title but contradicting yourself by posting it as a self portrait.
I agree with Drew that less pictures would have done it for me. The webcam shots do work to enhance the feeling of solitude and desperation.
I feel very voyeuristic looking at this.
I think the top image might leave me feeling the most uncomfortable—the smear of your mascara and the sliver of your lower teeth exposed for some weird reason get me every time I look at this.
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