While I Was Getting To Know Me (Revisited)

These images were made in 2017 in a workshop and included in a working copy of “On Becoming”, an artist book made in 2020 (project never fully realized). This is a new edit of Part I of a trilogy tracing an inward journey toward becoming an artist.

I wrote then that there were two “me’s” I considered — the one in my mind and the one others experienced. I was trying to look at myself from the outside. I knew it mattered.

Now I see more me’s than ever. A different me for the different groups of people in my life. And the me I’m trying to pay the most attention to — the me I aspire to be.

The images haven’t changed; I’m understanding more of what they’re saying. A self made from air. Another appearing. Meeting. Multiplicity. Argument. A hand reaching to touch. The work was always ahead of me. I’m catching up to all of it as quickly as I can.

This was the first intimacy. Once the selves were in the room together, the next question was whether they had anything to say. I wonder.

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Image 5 is view at Soho Photo Gallery through May 16th 2026 as part of Intimacy, curated by Elinor Carucci.