Persona
"Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?"
"Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?"
I produced this series of video portraits the first semester of grad school. I was inspired by the idea of the persona - that one is never who they really are. I instructed the sitters to think about becoming the person they had always imagined themselves to be while continuing to look into the camera. Each sitting lasts about 3 minutes, and one begins to think they are still images, until someone blinks, and you are reminded that you're watching...waiting, not just looking.
