Posie Currin

well it's been over a year perhaps and i've definetly neglated this avenue as a means to push forward and challenge myself.  so hear and see and get to gettin.  

I've been grappling for a couple of days thinking about a tittle for my show.  I wanted to feel that somehow connected with it.  At first I was very interested in the ideas around abstract scenarios and unknown anomalies but then i started thinking about things in and of themselves.  Walking to class tonight I ran into my friend Ben I told him how I had been struggling with this and he recomended that I try calling my dad and asking him.  Well I did and just off the phone a couple of minuites ago.  We talked about my idea for my show and what the concept was and he, being the quantum mathematician he is jumped at the idea of thought forms. He said you know what it is called, what your doing, it's called Affine Transformations....

My research has led me to the idea of 'the vanishing women' presented with in the realm of television advertisements and film. There are these moments in commercials where the woman is caught in an emotional moment where it is uncertain how she feels, I want to try and capture these moments on my rather mini statically challenged TV. I like the idea of the women in these portraits being caught off guard to my digital snap shots (not sure if that makes sense but it kind of does to me somehow?). Perhaps by capturing the image in a still frame allows the viewer to assemblage their own ideas of her individuality separate from the connotations of the original intentions of the commercials. This then makes me think that while we reassemble the image's intention we are then trying to connect the woman's image back to its original media context. I am curious if these images hold a different story other then the intentions of the original consumer origins. Or can the women in these static photos regain a sort of ownership of their individual identities?