Embodied Perspectives

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Using mouth as camera no.01 130102 

 Using mouth as camera no.02 130102   

 Using mouth as camera no.03 130102

 

This work is concerned with female embodiment. I have taken a shift from questions about representation – how the female body should be represented – to the question of subjectivity – what it means to inhabit that body.

 

Going beyond the physical boundaries of my ‘idealized exterior’, I have produced photographs using the inside and outside of the body.  My work is a continuous challenge to break boundaries to reveal women’s bodies as matter and process, as opposed to form and status.

 

I have used my body as the camera apparatus, a mechanical process merging exterior with interior landscapes. By deconstructing the idea of a camera, I replace the main functions with the body. As a result, my body is the camera and also the subject. I am the instrument, the process, the form, the gaze, the result, and the author. I am a tool for the production of self.

 

My processes range from using the orifice of my mouth as an interior camera device, to binding my hand up to form an aperture and taping 5x4 film to my breathing body. The mixture of these processes with time and light conspire to create images containing the movement of my breathing body.

 

                                                                                                               The hand that forms an aperature 1 & 2