Not to Be: Against the Self
Erin McCarty
When we think of our identity, the reality is that our sense of self is never stagnant, not constant. We have so many existing versions of ourselves that change with time, especially the changing labels that we use to identify ourselves with. This idea of one true self cannot be true, because the ways we choose to exist are dictated by the capability of our language and a pinpoint in a fleeting moment of time. Attempting to capture one's identity like this is untrue and oftentimes repressive. Towards embracing the lack of self, the non-singular self. The chaos of self.
Days of Reconstruction
Scanner photography as a medium for distortion of perception of self. Using distortions of my own body, face, flesh, etc. combined with liquids, plastics, and solutions with the intention of replicating an embryonic, growing state, while also resembling a fisheye lens, drawing the parallel between the observer and the observed.
Days of Reconstruction
Days of Reconstruction
Visual Schema towards Mismatched Perceptions
Scanner photography as a medium for distortion of perception of self. Using distortions of my own body, face, flesh, etc. combined with liquids, plastics, and solutions with the intention of replicating an embryonic, growing state, while also resembling a fisheye lens, drawing the parallel between the observer and the observed.
Material Explorations on a New Identity
Scanner photography as a material exploration in the external compositions of self. Clay, hair, saliva, milk, nail clippings, and lotion are used as a reconstruction of the external self, which is then sculpted, dissected, chewed, sliced, and stretched into new arrangements of the flesh.
AI Generating a New External Flesh
AI-generated flesh, created using the combined inputs of images of my own flesh and lumps of clay. Created with the intention of combining the real and the artificial flesh to create both real and artificial "beings".
AI Generating a New External Flesh
