Eat. Sleep. Photograph. Paint. Repeat: Through

I have really started to embrace my weirdness. I have always been a weird kid but I never let my "freak flag fly" especially with my art work. But here lately now that I am finally making life decisions I have let my inner fine art work, that just sits around in my brain, out.

I have also started to really get inspired by surrealistic art work, especially painting and sculpture. So, I started looking for inspiration for a new portfolio piece, and I stumbled upon Maurice Henry's sculpture "Eurydice's Crossing". In the sculpture there was fabric that had been folded and creased all over with large round flat spots in various places. But in the top right hand corner there was a face pushing through the sculpture.

I automatically related it to myself. Thinking about the struggles it takes to get through life. And I, being someone who has dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety issues I know exactly what that is like. So I started working on my own interpretation of this work. The series will be mostly self portraits, maybe some models, pushing through and possible breaking through different types of fabric like cotton, foil, plastic, etc.

This is my first test shoot that I have done so far. I haven't built a frame yet but I used a whole bunch of push pins, and a frosted shower curtain and wrapped it around my bathroom door frame, leaving one corner loose. I would then put myself behind the curtain and push my way through using the timer on my camera to release the shutter.