Entwined

by Tina E. Delia

Photography $125

Almost from the moment I first picked up a camera, I have been utilizing self-portraiture as my favorite means of expression. As a one-time theater student, I was trained to use my physicality to express myself emotionally. In effect, I photograph "the outside of the inside of me." Naked, inside and out. With several of these works, I chose to expand my process to include one additional figure. However, regardless of whose form I am utilizing, my preference is not to show faces or, when including them is unavoidable, to blur them or show only the profile. My intent is to allow the viewer the opportunity to inhabit the prints. To place themselves inside of them. To find or learn something about themselves that otherwise might not have occurred to them. Just as I learn something new about myself with every picture I make.