Someone had made this photo of me a few years back. I felt now confident enough to try a "real" person. The first person I tried to make an image from was myself. This was an important leap. Until then, I had made images from other images. I had chosen the images for what they expressed, and this expresson had been put into the image by someone else before. A photographer, a director, a comic artist.
Looking for images in the real world meant to cross a border. It expressed a certain confidence that I did not posses before. I would not anymore rely on others to print something for me. I would not anymore rely on others to film or shoot something for me. I would not anymore rely on others to express something for me. From now on, I would take ownership of this.
The template came out phantastic, and the images were all I hoped for. Some of my best works come from this template. The idea of placing three images on the same canvas came purely from the fact that the image was too small to fill a 70 x 100 space. I deeply love the three images that are in a progessing state of decay, or madness, or whatever.
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Self Portrait: template
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Ulrich Sommer: 50 x 70 cm
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| Self Portrait, three states of disintegration, 70 x 100, variation 1 |
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Self Portrait, three states of disintegration, 70 x 100, variation 2
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