Sometimes, I look in the mirror 50 times a day. I look for that one perfect angle, expression, or imperfection.  I seek the momentary proof that how I see myself and how others see me are one and the same.  Away from my reflection, I am left with the feeling that this union of selves doesn’t exist - that I am no more than a collection of dissociated angles.  I turn to self-portraiture in an attempt to become the observer as well as the observed and dissect the multiplicity of who I am: my mental, emotional, sexual selves and my relationships, my compulsions, my environments, my past.

"10.Resolutions" is a physical, compulsive me. I photograph my bad habits and pre-occupations, listing them one by one with unflinching scrutiny. Each image is paired with an index card and the accompanying resolution. I do this as an homage to my elementary school experience where our teachers would instruct us to write down our New Year’s Resolutions on index cards that would be sealed away in an envelope not to be opened until next year; a small time capsule to remind us of our failures.

"AutoCinema" examines an emotional, reactive me: I photograph myself watching movies, in hopes of trapping my involuntary reactions, expressions that I never get to see from outside myself. These photographs are to be displayed in a small room painted completely black, each image illuminated with a small light. Viewers will feel like they are watching an old silent movie, jumping from one magnified emotion to the next, each new emotion a scene, the whole room a film encapsulated.

"My Boyfriend's Back" is a kind of love history. In recreated photographs I replace my ex-boyfriends with my current boyfriend, confronting my former selves in an attempt to understand who I was then as a part of who I am now. The images are paired as a diptych, yet each image is in a separate frame connected with a hinge, linking the past and present.

The series shown here make up a greater project, where each individual series represents a different angle of who I am.  Instead of being a cohesive body of work, these projects, along with future iterations, represent the processes by which we are revealed to ourselves and the futility with which we search for that one perfect version.