the mirror stage
live performance, residual painting
By painting the projected self, I simultaneously disrupt and mirror my own externalized identity. In this way, the paint facilitates an investigation of the construction of self.
"The mirror stage is not the beginning of something, but the interruption – the loss, the lack, the division – which initiates the process that 'founds' the differentiated subject, and this depends not alone on the instantaneous formation of some internal cognitive ability, but on the dislocating rapture of the look from the place of the Other." Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans, Peter Redman, Identity: A Reader
"...the very image which places the child divides its identity into two." Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans, Peter Redman, Identity: A Reader
