My Opposite My Exact

Statement Written: July 2014

 

Growing up I was very shy, had a small group of friends, and I never took part in many groups. My layers and connections were few and I was comfortable with that. 

Arriving at college I was in a new place and did not know anyone. I decided I needed to make connections and create new layers if I was going to make it through my college years and the rest of my life. In my first collection of photos I present myself with only a few strings to show how few connections, layers existed and over time the strings increased.

 

My first day of school a guy came up to me asking if I needed any help; out of habit I blew him off. I later found out he was in my class and later we become best friends. We were friends for a long time before we started dating. During that time we talked about one another’s layers, connections, and I felt like I had found my soul mate. These photos show close ups, this representing my fiancé being my exact.

 

We moved in together and began to see each other’s flaws. Sometimes we both wanted to cut our strings because they had increased greatly; I felt like he was my opposite instead of my exact. Even though our layers have increased we also created good layers. The last group of photos shows the same parts with my fiancé and I tied together, illustrating us as one. Some might see it as suffocation, however, what I see is us together even though he is my opposite he is also my exact.