21 years (part 3)
The third part of "thing" (2005-2007)
I realised with a shock a few months ago that I've been obsessively documenting my self image for just over twenty years now. I wanted to move on from this but it took me a while to work out how. I previously wrote about this intention here and here.
Basically I decided to make a piece of work that will contain just about every single decent image of me taken or created in just over two decades, all in chronological order, whether made by me of by others, including photographs, graphics, art, illustration, whatever. There will be loads of unposted work in there.
I guess, for me it's a form of aversion therapy. I'm trying to overload on images of myself so I can wipe my slate clean and make a new, more creative start next year. Once I'm done no one (including me) will ever want to see another photo or video or picture of me again and I will feel free to move my creative practice onto other things.
I have a lot more to say about "thing", my motivation(s), the "year of the selfie" and why I'm stopping taking photos of myself, but I will post those thoughts after the final part of "thing", which, with this being the last day of 2014, will definitely leak into 2015 at this rate.
A lot of Second Life and early Deathline in this one.
Credits for this segment (2005-7):
All images by me except:
- Some photos and Second Life snapshots by Kate F, Isobel O, Stephen Angell, Jennie Werlemar, Johanna Mostert, Erika O, Ian B, Graham C, Lara G, David P, Miranda R, Jon N
- Polaroids (2007) by Jennie Werelmar, Tyler S, and Jennie's mum
- Deathline studio and location photos (2006) by Johanna Mostert
- Deathline live photos (2006-7) by Dani, N1c0, Eamon Lane, Stephen Angell, Erika O, Miranda R, Helana Love
- Invisibilia illustrations (2006) by Greg Stekelman
- Deathline location photos (2007) by Stewart Ruffles
Some images could not have attribution traced. Mists of time etc. Sorry if you were the creator.
Song: 'We Took Paris' by Deathline (music & lyrics by me and Jennie Werlemar). Recorded 2007 by Deathline. Originally released on Rock Noir EP (NOIR1001), 2007, deleted. Reissued on I Cannot See EP (NOIR1006), 2013.
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I'm a Musician, writer, photographer, designer, transgendered z-list celebrity. Insomniac's boyfriend. Tragic glamour and sleepless nights are my fellow travellers. Skinny jeans and pointy shoes are my mode-us operandi. I like cats. Especially the ones who talk. Oh, and David Lynch.
