To compare? Or to tell a story in pictures? To communicate?

Josiane Keller  ごみ  (2015)

Josiane Keller  もっとごみ (2015)

The need to compare is essential to the sense of identity, as if we are only 1, with no opposite or next to us, we are also irrelevant as we are the only one there is.

So we use pictures to communicate? Do we also need to communicate if we are only one? To whom? Do we need to communicate to ourselves? I think we used to, at least, in the past.

We used pictures to communicate to ourselves, to reflect. Which is, again, to compare. Me versus XY. What does it mean to be me, if there is XY.

To say “I was here”? Or to say “there is this”?

Josiane Keller  山 (2015)

But we only express our own perspective. To say “I’ve seen this”. Does it mean “me as a mountain”? Or “if I was this mountain, I would be this”?

I used to model for drawing groups. I would be the only model in a room full of people drawing me, or how they saw me at that time. There would be fat guys, thing guys and one with very large, gorgeous eyes. I noticed, every artist would draw me, but draw me in a way as if he was me, fat me, thin me and me with large, gorgeous eyes. The image of the artist is always also a self- portrait.

Or do we make pictures to say “there was this”? Or “I found this” and “it looks like that”? and “I saw it”?

Josiane Keller  ゼミ (2015)