Half

About this artwork

This large-scale cameraless photograph is part of the Mimesis series. This piece is based on an experience of someone approaching me and saying "I didn't realize you were half!" Half of what, I said to myself, half of what? I know from my experiences half of what but there is an incredible violence to halving someone - bisecting someone, adhering to the racial constructs that say there are fundamental differences between people, and thus someone like me must be a composite of multiple parts of other people. It was this time, I determined I am not half of anything.