as a high school duchamp fangirl I have known this for ages but somehow I never fully internalized it until today how much the act of presenting something as art fundamentally changes how it is perceived
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this feels self-centered but. I joined the 写真部, so today I went to their spring exhibition. some of the photos that deeply struck me emotionally also reminded me of photos I would never would have dared to dream I could present in a gallery. but there they were. making me feel things
I always considered my work "not good enough" in comparison to what I loved, but even beyond the proverbial "two cakes," of course a photo that has been chosen and presented will seem more meaningful to me than exposure #9 on the latest roll, next to the overexposed one and the one with bad framing
I think I understand better now why I've been so reticent to present my photography online, or even art more broadly. it's not purely an issue of self-esteem—I think of posting as an essentially disposable act, and I do not want to make disposable work
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