For Caroline: Some Images Of My Own

Here are some images from the series I did back in 2006-07 that I was telling Caroline about--but it might possibly relate to Sara-Lane's ideas as well. First, here is the artist's statement that accompanied the series:

Erased Avatars

This series of images consists of digital self-portraits mined from Myspace.com. Each image originally exists as the online representation of a cyberspace socialite. The image acts as the Internet “body” of the self-symbol; the avatar-self. In the manipulated images, the supposed subject of the photograph, the human figure, is erased; it’s only evidence a rather ambiguous silhouette. Thereby, everything patently human in the image is removed, leaving only the objects, camera, and implied mirror that surround, inform, and signify the blank space of the figure, the perceived locus of the elusive “self”. The following is a sampling of images from my Erased Avatars series (all Untitled, digitally manipulated found images):