This is the end result of a uni project. It actually started off quite different, but kept shifting, I'm not sure if the original idea was better now? I started off by trying to use scientific theory in this photo art project, I used the duality of light as wave and particle and tried to interpret it into this photo project. I tried to project the 'duality' theory onto a person, to do a series of portraits showing this duality in some way, creating a narrative of a split personality, or do a series of photos showing a conversation between someone and their other persona, juts like Gollum does in a scene from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Then i started to read this book on child psychology by Adam Philips, The Beast in the Nursery, which was pretty enlightening. The book is basically about the child come beast within you and the adult in you; the part of you that has been conditioned by society so it can live within it. The curious side and the realistic side. Hopefully you can start seeing some of this theory in the images above, the adult and the beast within, I tried to create this duality using the projector to mix these two worlds together, in the same frame. in most of the portrait I tried to keep the person quite calm, and and in control, being the adult, while projecting visual icons from their childhood that stood out to them, by searching google for those keywords. I think the last image with the cowboy silhouette is probably the most successful to get this across?
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