AUGMENTED SELF

FINAL IMAGES

Archival Pigment Print
Vertical Images: 36(H) x 24(W) in (each)
Horizontal Images: 24(H) x 36(W) in (each)

I wanted the ‘Augmented Self’ series is capturing different types of ego that exist within each human individual. I tried to create a performance piece rather than simple photography. Performance art is done and gone. But I wanted to record this real-life performance rather than capture the moment. Lights reflected on my body are photographed using a time exposure technique. The photographed body figure doesn’t have any solid structure. Instead, it is slightly shown like the soul that’s left behind. I’m trying to express an individual’s inner personality through traces from the overlapped see-through figures. My constant movement confuses the vision but I’m still there.

These are outputs of photographic experiments in studio in order to create final environmental self-portraits.

These are process book pages that mainly show how I began the project “Augmented Self” with initial ideas [Keywords: Body Gesture, Various Ego, Surrealism, Continuous Time, and Disassemble and Recombination of Human Figures] and idea sketches of the inner side of the human being.

These are process book pages that mainly show the research of various artists who dealt with surrealism. The list of artists includes László Moholy-Nagy, Giorgio de Chirico, Brassaï, and Bill Brandt. There is also a page of my thoughts and questions of how I can bring surrealism into my photography.

These are process book pages that mainly show the research of philosophers and artists who dealt with time and human figures. For instance, the research includes Henri Bergson who defined how continuous-time roles and works in-universe, Hiroshi Sugimoto who applied the concept of continuous-time into photography, and Francis Bacon who dealt with transformed ego and disassemble and recombination of human Figures. And there is also the research of photoshoot location for “Augmented Self.”