The Death of Jo, 2021

The Death of Jo dismantles the self portrait by forcing distance between the photographer and her “self”. Abject ephemera were photographed, with multiple texts invading and surrounding the bodily remnants. The texts are written responses by various participants in first person narrative. As they emotionally inhabit and activate the photograph, they shift the “self” that was originally captured. Finally, using my own hand to inscribe others’ words into the photo, I further conflate the exchange of spectator and self.

The Death of Jo, 2021, digital print, posca marker, 34 x 51cm.