A visual experimental study of what is not the self, I.

A visual survey of what I am not, but I think I am. 

A visual study of what I am.

A visual study of the fluctuations in the mind 

A visual experiment of the fluctuations of emotions. 

This project is not just a visual experiment, but a mental one as well. It’s an interactive exploration of the ‘external’ world, inviting you to engage with your surroundings in a new way.

This project is a visual experiment that explores the concept of ‘melting in the chaos.’ It is a methodology that involves denying all that the mind identifies as itself, including dogmas and ideas. Once the mind recognizes these elements, we deny them as part of the self, leading to a sense of peace in chaos. 

This project is inspired by the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, a philosopher who also explored the nature of the self and the relationship between the individual and society.

It is an ongoing visual experiment in which I digitally cropped myself out of the selfies and pictures of myself and filled the empty content with deformed visual information from the surroundings. This transformative project reflects how our surroundings shape us - and vice-versa, inspiring a new perspective on self and identity. 

The delimitation of the self is done in a very soft manner. Some of the works are more obvious, some more delicate; just as the feeling of separation of the self from the environment is more substantial, sometimes a dissolvation of the identity with the external world occurs. This also happens in the context of the artist’s studio, where the desolvation happens almost 100%, and the environment and the self merge, reaching an undistinctive and abstract identity. 

As the winds and waters shape a stone, the sea shapes the sand, or the flame by the wind, how do our surroundings shape us - and vice versa? And more than that, when do we say - stop: ’This is me, this is the air touching my skin’?  

Where do we finish, and where does our environment begin? Where does the ‘inside’ stop and the ‘outside’ end? Where do I start, and when do You finish?

Ms-selfie began as a project based on the photos made during the documentation of my diploma - Selfie Analugue.

As the process of making is very important phase in practice (personally I consider it the most valuable) the documentation pictures proved themselves to be flourishing and took the shape of this project.. Regarding the concept behind my diploma- that the selfie and the simple act of taking photos of yourself turned into a habbit- and not only - gives birth to a new image, a distorted one, which the individual identifies himself with (link - https://anaolar.squarespace.com/#/selfi-analogue/ ) For this reason, I decided to erase myself from the documentation, and explore the options which the new visual experiment was offering.