Comments on: Self Portrait

By: Liag

Liag — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:17:31 +0000

I’d never heard of the True Mirror. A wee bit expensive, so I think I’ll try to make one (and deal with the line down the middle.)

By: fred

fred — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:06:52 +0000

Liag, have you ever looked at yourself in a non-reversing mirror such as the True Mirror? It's an amazing experience because we usually always see ourselves reversed in a regular mirror or displaced in time in a video or photo. In a non-reversing mirror you see yourself live, but as you appear to others. The left eye and the right eye then become windows into the correct hemisphere of the brain (or something like that). My experience was that I appeared more alive, and more kind and open, than I usually appear to myself in a regular mirror. The drawing in this post was done with a regular mirror, so it's interesting that reversing it makes it look right to you!

By: Liag

Liag — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:52:14 +0000

Fred, it’s interesting to see how you see yourself. And there is a difference to me. The drawing without flipping doesn’t look like you. It’s “wrong”. The drawing flipped, does. Yet, of course it’s the same drawing. Makes me wonder what I look like to people and how that is different to the way I see myself. lol! In more ways than just physically!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:10:50 +0000

Enjoyed seeing the process!

By: fred

fred — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:20:21 +0000

Jim, I don’t think I can do that on this one. In more than half of the shots my head is blocking the drawing or the autofocus focused on my head and not on the drawing. Originally I wanted to get a friend who is a filmmaker to make a video of a portrait session, but she’s out of the country for a while so that will have to wait until next month at least. This was my stab at doing it unassisted – photographing myself drawing myself and then writing about it. Pretty darn narcissistic!