Identity is constructed, meaning that what defines us is determined by signifiers other than the "self" such as objects we carry, the clothes we wear, the music we download, even the cigarettes we smoke; and all of it eventually ties in with consumerism. Keeping this in mind, I approached this self portrait project in an ironic way. The series reads "I am one of a kind" yet is composed of bar codes and repetitive patterns from some of the objects that I had on me at the time (for instance, the type is composed from receipts found in my wallet). All other graphic elements are repeatedly used across the whole series even though the scale shifts make you think otherwise. It is all just different arrangements of the exact same elements, creating a stealth congruency between them that brings home the point that we are all a version of something else and disrupting, if not dissipating, the notion of individuality and selfhood all together.
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