I want to shoot 2 new face portraits and present the left side of mine, right of his – manipulated as in enhanced for vividness and attractiveness. So the idea is one of ‘best we can be’ in a traditional and public and specular kind of way that is valued in western societies.
Then there is a centre portrait, like a Mr Potato Head, or an identikit of bits of our faces cobbled together to make a new face. Together we make something different, which is not altogether lovely.
Meanings: the me-you are different to the us. But this is also a moment – how real is it? how long does it last? There are lots of moments and what does a single moment mean? How does it change? It could also be read as ‘if there had been children….what would they have looked like?’ And if children look like their parents, do we get to look like each other the way they say dogs look like their owners.
The process of involving Mark in creating this work – and the problems that will result maybe I should blog them – the underlying theme and its link to Hughes and Plath, this subconscious desire I’ve had for a mentor-muse partnership and the senses that this does and does not exist.
The bottom triptych will include motion, evolution.
I want to do an interview. Me of him, him of me. Maybe about a central question: who are you, who am I, who are we? I can then manipulate this audio so that there’s a track of me and him on my identity, me and him on his identity, and us on us to apply to 3 movies or slideshows. The audio manipulation might be more that editing interesting extracts, it might also involve repetition of key words or phrases or silence and deletions, looping – depends what emerges.
So what does that mean? …
What are the three movies?
Left me: I wonder about setting up the work plan and style of the outcome, but leaving the subject matter to what’s in the interview…not necessarily reflecting what’s being said or directly related…maybe something that isn’t being said. Could just be that Going Nowhere footage re-cut (remove ground, just focus on windows), as there is a middle-aged feeling of time running out, seeking meaning and going nowhere.
Going Nowhere: loops within loops. Me, reflected, struggling to move forward and then shown just repeating the same thing. What’s the reflecting about – the actual me is not seen? For Jung middle-life transitions are about finding meaning, about integrating all the bits of one’s self and accepting them.
Central us : slideshow of existing photos. Maybe intercut with shots from the interview. Past and present. What of the future? How do I represent that? Blankness? Romantic music???? images of movie stars? Objects desired? Fears? Old age, disease and death
Right him: ditto to ‘left me’
And do they mean? …
Construct a work plan
