Weekend Portfolio: Fallon McDonald

I LOVE YOU, ANNI AND JOSEF

I have been trying to articulate something incommunicable. Thankfully for me, The message is in the medium. This is an in-progress excerpt of my project exploring the limits of the photographic self-portrait

Creating patterns out of Polaroids to then printing on fabric. Quilting the patterned fabrics to create a tapestry 

And then photographing myself with it

 Building a cage hoop skirt. Hanging the Polaroids from the structure of the cage

And then photographing myself wearing it

Forming a silicone mold of my torso. Casting both wax and plaster busts from the mold

And then photographing myself with it

This ongoing self-portrait strives to show my change over time as I struggle simultaneously to survey and style my own image

I am sculpting a self out of these materials... it is truly a shame they have been reduced to merely catalogue pages
Unfortunately for you, dear reader, the message is in the medium. So it seems you are doomed to experience this project at a material loss