Series of 21 panels, each 40" x 30"
C print photograph, line drawing and text

I refer to these works as "psycho-portraits", not revealing the external look of the subject, rather revealing and evoking social and psychological layers of identity held within the subject as images.

In each portrait the subject is moving across multiple projections of images he or she has chosen from their autobiography and from the public domain. Participants had been asked by me to choose images from their collection that they felt compelled by, either through attraction or repulsion.

Each subject's images were transferred to 35mm slides and projected from multiple slide projectors to overlap simultaneously onto a cinema screen. As the subject moves across the paths of projection beams, his/her body acts as a matting devise casting shadows, which fragment, obscure and re-compose the original fixed images. New relationships are created, speaking new narratives.

I stand behind the projectors and look through my camera to watch the mutating relationships in front of me, between the moving body and the mutating projected images. When I see a provocative relationship between the subject and the images, I call out "freeze". The subject freezes their position and I take a picture.

Each final photograph in this series is informed by a map outline that identifies the layers of images by name and date.