archival inkjet prints from 8 – 120 negatives (400 ISO NC). each taken with an antique brownie no. 2 camera (1931).
simultaneously, i dreamt of blossoms, crawling into bed with me. they made a rope around my neck and pushed the air out of my lungs so i would stay with them forever. we slept.
this project was more about the process of creating the portraits, rather than the actual content of the photos themselves. each photo was taken with an antique brownie no. 2 camera. because this camera is over 8 decades old, it doesn’t have a self timer trigger, therefore i had to create the self portraits by myself. a piece of parcel string was tied to the shutter release, and in a series of maneuvers (which obviously got better as the shoots progressed), i pulled the shutter myself, not knowing what the picture would actually look like (much like our dreams). the varying content and props within the pieces all relate to common dream themes from the early 1900s (as taken from a book published in the 50s, so i’m going to go ahead and assume they knew what they were talking about).
