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Dissection
This series is an extension of the Body Archive and represents the metaphorical extraction of an image from it's body.  In a similar fashion to the way one might dissect the corporal body, these images are dissections from the whole of the image body.  I explore the body as a site of experience, and the body as both repository and author of information.  In an attempt to develop a documentary self-portrait without bias and point of view, I place a light sensitive emulsion, sans camera, on the surface of my body to record my actions.  The images are created over time: minutes, hours.  The resulting photographs are the striking visual residue of my experience: traces of body fluid, clothing, skin prints, and the fine edges of body hair become evidence of my occurrence.  I live in a body and my body is an archive, my skin the surface through which I experience the world.
Dissection I, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 12 inches
Dissection II, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 12 inches
Dissection III, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 12 inches
Dissection IV, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 12 inches

Dissection V, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 12 inches
Dissection VI, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 12 inches
Dissection VII, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 12 inches
Dissection VIII, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 12 inches
Dissection IX, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 12 inches
Edition of 5 / 2 AP
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