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Personae are identities and roles we choose or become. This portrait series presents expressions of identity through relationships — between sisters, friends, lovers, mothers and daughters, self and the Divine, and the infinite layers within ourselves.
Portraits are more than how we appear, but also who we want to be, how we want to be seen and known. They are at once intimate and theatrical. They can be mirrors to our own stories — like dances, compression of time and space, with choreographed gestures.
Photographic portraits also exist as time markers that often inform or replace memory. They are souvenirs of experiences. Subvenire, literally “to come up from below,” implies something buried deeply. When memory is imprinted by a few images, we can warp and suppress every other sense. And the true memory may not come up from below, but only float on the surface of experience. We can learn to exist not in the present but in the edited images we compile.
In the age of social media, in which it is easy to manipulate our narratives, instantly presenting filtered, altered versions of ourselves, who are we at our core? Is a smile true? And is identity fixed or malleable? Who are we when we feel at home within our skin, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, confide and feel known and loved unconditionally. Where is she? When is she?
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Duo, 2019