Idea blog: Sorry its late: Wholly Differentiated

First of all i am sorry i am posting late, but i still need to continue posting. I have found that this posting as well as the individual meetings as a vital necessity for improving my work. This week, i focused on the phrase 'wholly differentiated', a phrase mentioned in the book Ideology, Identity, and Assumptions, edited by Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer. The phrase mentions that because of ties to history, kinship and culture, i view myself as wholly differentiated from competing social and ethnic groups. I started thinking about this phrase and what it means to me. Thoughts of separation and distinction came to me. I started thinking of how my photographs can tie this concept of separation, and being 'wholly differentiated', and thoughts immediately reminded me of my older work from the spring semester this year. The photographs of myself separated by exposure or movement from those around me still dwindles in the back of my mind, trying to pick at me and become another series. However, this time around i thought of a different type of separation between me and others; rather than being technically different through exposure or movement in a slow shutter speed, i thought of my actual physical and mental 'dressings' that would distinguish me from others. I thought about this and searched the internet for any inspirations. These photographs give me some idea of other ways of separation between the exterior and other world. With these thoughts, i also thought of images involving me with completely different clothes, from Africa, rather than the norm of everyday life. I can wear the original garments of a Masaai tribesman, which will make a very strong connection between being 'wholly differentiated'. I will continue to expand on this thought and consider this a major direction in my artwork this year.


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