It is interesting to match and compare the differences between my Proposal and my Blurb and how my idea has changed over time.
‘My Morning Routine’
Video Projection, 2011
My current practice of work evolves around a personal aspect of my life, and I feel that I can portray this best through the medium of Video.
I believe that we all have a perception of how we act when we are alone and when we are around others, and that the way in which others see us can differ greatly to how we view our own persona. My creating "self portraits" via the medium of video, I believe that coming to terms with other peoples perception of myself will help me to understand myself more accurately, in other words to create a true portrait of who I am in the wider construct of society. Amongst my peers and my family, for example.
Within my video piece, entitled "My Morning Routine" This is exactly what I have endeavoured to capture. I have tried to capture intimate shots that usually nobody other than I will see, as I get ready for the day. What I wanted to highlight was the almost religious sense in which I tend to the tasks depicted in the video - how I can't live day to day without performing this routine. Indeed it has become more a part of my life than perhaps even I had imagined, and consequently shapes who I am as a person.
The video has been put together in a way that the subject - myself - is never seen. This was in order to give the audience an essence and an Idea of who I am, to put the viewer in my shoes, so to speak. This was done by filming personal shots of possessions and the things around me, allowing the viewer to immerse ones self in the subject of me, the individual.
Kay Woodley
www.akayinthelifeof.blogspot.com
