October 2008 Archives

I love the way my brain works late at night. I love the secretive alertness, manic productivity and usually, the solitude. Yet, I'm jealous of early risers. They seem so smug and efficient at 6am while I'm mired in a cozy hatred of anything even resembling consciousness. I started this project convinced that waking up in the morning was the singularly most unpleasant, violently invasive moment of the average day and I wanted to one-up that moment but adding insult to injury - the self portrait. By and large, all these subjects (including myself) have taken their own photos-- from arms length and riddled with self-consciousness - a medium perhaps more comparable to a myspace profile picture than a genuinely intimate moment. Maybe its the nexus of the two that I'm truly interested in. Anyway, I'm still groping around, trying to find a compromise between image and reality, waking and sleeping, dreaming and doing. Any wake up related pictures should be emailed to emilyjo.c at gmail dot com.