【Chapter 1】Getting Ready | Are You Wearing a Mask ?
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What is the regiment of the status quo? What is the world we enforce with filters and fake, perfect, beautiful skin?
Is it a tranquil wonderland or a self-facilitated cage of discontent? Who are we when we don’t see ourselves in the mirrored reflection of the physical world anymore?
“We Have A Lot Irrelevant Information. Clarity Is Power.”
When contemplating the fine lines between naturalism and idealization my mind inevitably drifts back to the fascinating artworks of Ancient Greece.
As pioneers of the idea of the self, in conjunction with the body and divinity I find myself emulating the same core values in my photography and conceptualization - the naturalized blending with idealized - real living beings in my version of the world.
真實的基礎上，追求一種超越真實的美感
The real self with an identity but limitless depts to pursue the unknown.
When I was a young girl in high school I dreamed of turning my passion for makeup into a career. When I realized that dream, I gave it everything I had and took on all sorts of pro-bono projects in TV & film, fashion, brides and special effect to push my conceptual and technical boundaries. Half way through my co-op, after I graduated from Blanche Macdonald, I was met with a confusing repetition - I kept on meeting cute, beautiful girls who wanted to be someone else. In the inner circles there were models and talents lost in their shiny, beautiful bubble.
I started to question what is beautiful and ugly? What kind of life do I want?
I started questioning What is beautiful and ugly? What kind of life do I want?
These pics was Inspired by 【Self-Portrait with Masks -James Ensor 】when I saw myself on the bottles of perfume which reflected and distorted my face.
For my birthday, continuing on this theme of identity through distortion, I thought it would be interesting to I put my twisted face on body of bottles to celebrate the New Me.
It reminded me a bit of a James Ensor’s painting - Self-Portrait with Masks (1899). Alone and surrounded in a sea of strange and ghoulish faces, James defiantly remains his true self. In his portrait, the symbolist reveals a truth about people - fake, shallow identities and easily corruptible.
I like how it can allude to the many faces of each situation. In my opinion, as the world keeps on changing, everything is relative and fragments of truth are jealousy hoarded between millions of stories.
What do you see from his art ?
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