I SEE MYSELF IN EVERYTHING

“I See Myself in Everything” is a series of my own image mirrored and distorted in the symbolic surfaces I find in daily life. Some surfaces are visual metaphors that reflect the multi-layered worlds around us. Some are metaphors for my own performed identity. I frame my reflections – and these photographs are not ‘selfies’ – to express my interest in the cultural, the philosophical, the psychological, the aesthetic, and the ironic. My body’s size within the frame also corresponds to my relationship to what surrounds me. These 9 images are a part of the larger series, each of which was shot in-camera, with no external layers added in post. The photographs are intentionally enigmatic compositions exploring how we inevitably project ourselves onto every part of our surroundings – especially in art – in order to first grasp the complex meanings beneath those surfaces. Because they are not selfies, this sequence can explore broader dimensions of our collective narcissism as we stage-manage our idealized identities. As I (and viewers) manage to spy "myself in everything," I also probe implicit distinctions between artist and spectator, between inside and outside art’s surfaces, between the gazers and the gazed-upon, and between the consumer and the consumed around the globe.