I
continued my peep hole series and expanded the idea to focus
more on the role of the viewer and a person as subject.
The first thing you look at in a photo, if it is there, is
people. There is that instant connection. Everything else
becomes secondary. What ever the scene is it only gives
context to the person, never the other way around. We are an
image-based society fixated on knowing about other people’s
lives. Whether it is voyeurism watching a stranger, tabloids
of celebrities, or a fictional sitcom on television, their
lives are infinitely more interesting. Even fictional
characters lives are a point of fascination. The idea that we
have to fabricate imaginary lives for entertainment proves we
cannot get enough.
My series has a level of comfort about it. It focuses around
a single person with an intimate viewpoint of mundane daily
practices. It becomes instantly relatable. The idea of the
peephole is a point of view that is unobtrusive, quiet, and
revealing. There are aspects of day-to-day life that tie us
all together but why is it so much more interesting and
comforting when it is someone else? These private little
moments fill every persons life each day.
The series was originally created to be viewed as large scale
projections. Viewing these moments far larger than life
scale, the viewers can immerse themselves into the moment and
become apart of the intimacy.
I
continued my peep hole series and expanded the idea to focus
more on the role of the viewer and a person as subject.
The first thing you look at in a photo, if it is there, is
people. There is that instant connection. Everything else
becomes secondary. What ever the scene is it only gives
context to the person, never the other way around. We are an
image-based society fixated on knowing about other people’s
lives. Whether it is voyeurism watching a stranger, tabloids
of celebrities, or a fictional sitcom on television, their
lives are infinitely more interesting. Even fictional
characters lives are a point of fascination. The idea that we
have to fabricate imaginary lives for entertainment proves we
cannot get enough.
My series has a level of comfort about it. It focuses around
a single person with an intimate viewpoint of mundane daily
practices. It becomes instantly relatable. The idea of the
peephole is a point of view that is unobtrusive, quiet, and
revealing. There are aspects of day-to-day life that tie us
all together but why is it so much more interesting and
comforting when it is someone else? These private little
moments fill every persons life each day.
The series was originally created to be viewed as large scale
projections. Viewing these moments far larger than life
scale, the viewers can immerse themselves into the moment and
become apart of the intimacy.
