IZxist Photography

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Performance Stills

So I've been long in love with the image of the sad clown (more specifically Emmett Kelly Junior) and I've finally begun to act on it. The sad clown speaks to our humanity. For me it represents every level of emotion and feeling I face. As a clown, the expectation is entertainment. If I'm a clown, I should make you laugh. But I'm not just funny, I feel everything. I'm quite emotional at times, quite passionate. I am the sad clown, because it's more than just a clown. Why a sad clown? Is it because people are entertained by the sadness of others, by turmoil and fight? A sad clown puts it all out there. It's like putting on a mask to take one off and show your true self, rather than thinking a mask is what hides you. No, but maybe it shields you.

On that note...which I of course have many thoughts on...here is the beginnings of my explorations of identity through the use of clown face as mask and metaphor. 

"Life is a play in so many acts. It is not a game as some might say, but a performance. We are all performers. We are characters; characters in the everyday performance of life. My work explores this idea as it relates to the people who play the biggest roles in my life. My interests and explorations as an artist and as a person culminate around a theme of identity. In Performance Stills I have chosen to explore that theme through the clown as mask and the mask as metaphor.

What's your role? Who are you? Who am I? Am I in your play? Are you in my play? Are we a series of spin offs and guest appearances?"

-Isabel F. Artist's Statement, Performance Stills 2012

Oh hello Blogger...

It's been over a year since I've written a real post! I guess I haven't really taken this blogging thing anywhere. No one really see's this anyway...maybe eventually people will. Maybe after I post up something worthy of a read!

I don't do resolutions, but while I'm here maybe I can set a goal. Stop keeping my work to myself! Share my thoughts, ideas, and images! Get out there! [in the outside world and the world wide web]


On that note I say, Live Feral.

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The CellF Portrait Epidemic

Thank you facebook, macbook photo booth and cell phone cameras for turning introverts into narcissists. I mean really! Look at what you've done!

If not for social networking and these play full photo apps, there would most definitely not be whole albums dedicated to oneself. I can definitely say this about me. I know not everyone turns to the darkside of narcissism, but so many of us do. And the odd thing is, this is the only way to really get pictures of me. When it comes to making work as a photographer I have grown more interested in self as subject, but it is not an easy task. It's still a lot more difficult to get right than "hey I'm going to turn my phone to this angle and try to make myself look good." Its an interesting contrast. 

Which portrayal will be the more accurate one? Am I doing myself justice in proper representation by either means? Is anyone? Do these cell phone shots count as self portraits?

So access...does it really make everyone a photographer? Is the 2 minute shot more thoughtful than the 2 hour, 2 day, 2 month shot?

Well here I am jumping on the modern era bandwagon. Bring on the CellF Portraits! 

Artist Statement

As I continue to grow and learn, about myself and the world around me, I find my work falling into a main theme. It is a theme of identity. As a society, and naturally as human beings we wear many masks and have many sides to our personalities. The mystery of a masquerade has always been popular as well as enticing. You can be amongst friends and hide as strangers, yet your personality comes out in your mask of choice, how you have decorated it and your behavior while hidden. Though I did not get to see Venice, where the tradition of Carnivale and these Masquerade masks has really sprung from, I embraced those in my surroundings here in Rome. Even the personality of the creator stays within the mask and when someone goes to buy them they reach for the one that calls out. It all comes back to who we are, who we believe ourselves to be, even when consciously we are still unsure. 

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde

Roma Amor!

I don't really know what I want to say. I just had the urge to blog. So here it goes....

It's day 14 in Rome. I love it here, but I of course miss home. What can I say I love my city! Though being here does feel right ^_^ It's only natural. Visiting Roman ruins such as the Forum, Pompeii, The Christain Catacombs have all been an amazing walk through history. The beauty of this city is not aesthetic, it is in the rich legend, history and myth of Rome, and of Italy.

The Colosseum

The Roman Forum

Mold of the fossil of a victim of the eruption of Vesuvius in Pompeii

These are just three images of oh so many!