The face was the focus of the past self portraits, but this new way I’m turning allowed (or made me) turn to the full body. If I want to show all or nothing I have to use all or nothing. All it was.
Again the speed makes sure I don’t have to reveal all (sort of..). It was hard showing it for the first, awkward. Once that first border is crossed, you get over it. And look, it’s on the internet now! (ehh…)
The decomposing of the body is an extra element to distort the body. Even when all three parts come together, the image never really gets to a real life, obvious human (naked) body, my body.
The sounds you hear are from the original recording, which was set to music, and got the same speed changes as the images. That’s what creates the abstract speeding (fast forward-like) sounds. On this one I tried putting over a song too, but together it becomes a bit much. It’s a remix by Jamie xx for ‘My Cloud’ by Gil Scott-Heron (R.I.P.).
