selfie {Projected installation of photograph} 2017


"My shadow fractured simultaneously into divergent scales (ultra close-up/distant) as the sun's rays refracted through angled windows.
I was compelled to snap the fleeting moment with my phone, amused by the in-situ scale (analogous to a selfie), yet totally unidentifiable
(unlike the select selfies customary on social media)."

The work was shot at Órbitas, Bowie's studio and residency program (2014-21) in Samara, CR. https://www.fionabowie.org/orbitas.html
Selfie's coherence as an image fails as the viewer moves closer to the work.


selfie is related in subject and form to Veils, a group of photographs and and uncut videos (with diegetic sound) that capture attendant details of domestic life in the form of moving shadows rather than the actual subjects or objects in question.
While direct documentation of the domestic environment, Veils are quiet abstractions: aural and visual sensations where traces of unfamiliar or unrecognizable objects move gently in accord with complementary environmental forces.)







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