"Ephemerality" (2020)
As a generation living and growing up in this time of technology and social media, we constantly edit and alter what we look like in order to fit this standard of beauty that we see online. We post anything and everything, sometimes crossing that invisible line of oversharing online. We spend more time than we’d like to admit editing photos to post that the average follower will look at for only a few seconds, or less, at a time. In a visual sense of “in one ear, out the other,” we see something and forget it after a few more minutes of scrolling and repeating that same process. This fast-paced personal energy is not only present in our online lives but has moved into our realities as well. Constantly looking for these short-term pleasures, for the next big adventure, we don’t take the time to really enjoy the simple moments we are currently living.
The photographs in this collection focus on the fast-paced posting, scrolling, and liking on social media that we experience every day. The blurriness represents the way we scroll through Instagram, for example. The faces of people you don’t even remember following flying past you. The seemingly careless nature of the photographs in this collection show my face, and other parts of my body, blurred to the point of me being almost unrecognizable. The setting being my bedroom is meant to mirror the trend of mirror selfies in bathrooms and bedrooms, settings that used to be the most personal and private places, but are now posted on the internet for the whole world to see.
"Untitled #1" (Digital Photograph, 2020)
"Untitled #2" (Digital Photograph, 2020)
"Untitled #3" (Digital Photograph, 2020)
"Untitled #4" (Digital Photograph, 2020)
