Andreea, waiting [part B]

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  Ambiguous portrait series [2013-2014] | 2013 - 2014

People are “visual beings”. The way in which we ground on sight seems to be also the way in which we navigate the world and react to what is around us. Yet our honest self is closed to the eye. Upon contact, we create a surface and project our identity there for others to interact with, a surface created by the closure between people. Most of my work is a study on the way that identity of another is perceived, the identity of that surface; a study on how empathy and intuition can create a bridge of communication, against frustrations that fool ration and genuine emotions , giving the feeling of a second identity-surface. But man isn’t exclusively guided by sight, he functions in harmony with the rest of the senses. Smell and specially hearing are sensitive to the changes that occur over time to the feelings created by what we once perceived. What I’m most interested in is how the perception of another person changes in depth by altering the elements that our senses react to. If, for example, we are shown an abstract image that is supposedly the portrait of a person we know, but without enough visual clues to recognize him/her, wouldn’t the sound of that person’s voice be suddenly all-revealing? Consciously using (or not using) elements of visual language, other senses might be of aid—creating a form of “imaginary vision”. When the eye is made to doubt, sound may untangle [the mind.]