Embryonic

Overview

This stop motion short film was made in the winter of 2023 when I was living at home in Michigan after graduating college. The installation consisted of fifteen crocheted posters with the image of a young Lady Gaga on them in blue. This appropriated portrait symbolises myself at my core, an embryo basking in her own potential like Lady Gaga did before her explosion of fame. The physical resemblance between me and the image validates this self-seeing. The act of posting information on wooden telephone poles is one that evokes communal connection without technology. I chose to use this mode of communication to translate and infuse my art into the minds and environments of my community members at the time. The art in question looks at the viewer as they are looking at it and is reminiscent of the feeling of being seen by the surplus of shrines and altars housing pictorials of Mother Maria in Southern Italy.