Looking
Session Title
Creative Expressions-Session 2
Faculty Mentor
Claudia O'Steen, M.F.A.; osteenc@winthrop.edu
College
College of Visual and Performing Arts
Department
Fine Arts
Faculty Mentor
Claudia O'Steen, M.F.A.
Abstract
My series Looking is a working collection of images taken in film to visually express the concept of being watched and viewed as a woman in society. Originally working with the concept of youth vs. adulthood I have narrowed more selectively to the concept of being watched and objectified in the public view. As of late, with the ongoing social killer that is Covid-19, I have been looking back on my ideas of self-expression. I love frilly clothes and cute, feminine colors and yet I instead choose to hide in clothes that are too large and too bulky to ever really suit me. I realize that most of my life I have been hiding myself away so that when I am in the public-eye I can minimize the chances of people seeing me. I want to push that feeling as far away as I can by doing exactly what I hate. My series is one of self-portraits, images of myself in outfits and soft settings I could never previously bring myself to share with other people. I now want people to look. I also want to look at my own images as they do. My hatred for people looking at me stems from my inability to look at myself. I want to be able to see myself from a disconnected point of view, one that is not so heavily biased. Looking is a project created to overcome my own personal insecurities and connect with people who have and have not felt this way before.
Additional Fields About Your Abstract
Please check this if you understand.
Start Date
16-4-2021 12:30 PM
Looking
My series Looking is a working collection of images taken in film to visually express the concept of being watched and viewed as a woman in society. Originally working with the concept of youth vs. adulthood I have narrowed more selectively to the concept of being watched and objectified in the public view. As of late, with the ongoing social killer that is Covid-19, I have been looking back on my ideas of self-expression. I love frilly clothes and cute, feminine colors and yet I instead choose to hide in clothes that are too large and too bulky to ever really suit me. I realize that most of my life I have been hiding myself away so that when I am in the public-eye I can minimize the chances of people seeing me. I want to push that feeling as far away as I can by doing exactly what I hate. My series is one of self-portraits, images of myself in outfits and soft settings I could never previously bring myself to share with other people. I now want people to look. I also want to look at my own images as they do. My hatred for people looking at me stems from my inability to look at myself. I want to be able to see myself from a disconnected point of view, one that is not so heavily biased. Looking is a project created to overcome my own personal insecurities and connect with people who have and have not felt this way before.
