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Snap judgments. When we look at a person, we make certain assumptions about who they might be. We preconceive these notions of personality based on clothing, hair, facial features, body type, color, shape, down to every minute physical detail. But exactly how much do our assumptions warp or shape our perceptions of one another? Do these exterior qualities actually inform how and who these people are? What judgments do we ascribe to these qualities and how does it limit our ability to truly see each other? Do we dislike or prefer someone immediately just because of our response to a particular aspect of their image?
For example, a persons hair...
When we remove features that could reveal a person’s character and transform their hair into just shape, texture, and color, what meaning do we still attribute to it? In the series “Layered,” I have photographed different people and isolated their hair from all other features and wonder, what will we still assume of these people? Along with the images are a series of quotes that I extracted from conversations with each of the subjects. The installation encourages viewers to place these sentences next to the hair’s portrait they believe it belongs to, developing a biography based on the viewer’s assumptions—based only on hair.
When we remove features that could reveal a person’s character and transform their hair into just shape, texture, and color, what meaning
do we still attribute to it?
Snap judgments. When we look at a person, we make certain assumptions about who they might be. We preconceive these notions of personality based on clothing, hair, facial features, body type, color, shape, down to every minute physical detail. But exactly how much do our assumptions warp or shape our perceptions of one another? Do these exterior qualities actually inform how and who these people are? What judgments do we ascribe to these qualities and how does it limit our ability to truly see each other? Do we dislike or prefer someone immediately just because of our response to a particular aspect of their image?
For example, a persons hair...
When we remove features that could reveal a person’s character and transform their hair into just shape, texture, and color, what meaning do we still attribute to it? In the series “Layered,” I have photographed different people and isolated their hair from all other features and wonder, what will we still assume of these people? Along with the images are a series of quotes that I extracted from conversations with each of the subjects. The installation encourages viewers to place these sentences next to the hair’s portrait they believe it belongs to, developing a biography based on the viewer’s assumptions—based only on hair.
When we remove features that could reveal a person’s character and transform their hair into just shape, texture, and color, what meaning
do we still attribute to it?
