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Barophobia
It was time to take Bartolo on his first real Polaroid journey, and so I took the mini-me concept and created a thing which I shall now refer to as a "mini-B".
In self-portraits, I like to draw on my own emotions. In this case, as I was depicting my new hound, I decided it might be an interestingly weird experiment to seek inspiration in his, and this is what my brain came up with.
I don't know what my dog has experienced in the past. I do know that he came to me with a multitude of deep-rooted fears - mostly of things that wouldn't seem the least bit scary to humans. It made me think about how totally subjective and illogical many phobias are - how one person's (or dog's) terror can be completely incomprehensible to others. (I mean, me, I'm scared of mirrors in the dark, of people coming at me with hairbrushes, of being patted on the head and of being publicly offered an open banana.)
I called the picture Barophobia after one of the most peculiar phobias I could discover - the fear of gravity. What lives must barophobics lead, what with everything in the universe right down to the tiniest speck of dust being subject to at least some degree of gravity...? How do they live? Do they hog the zero-gravity simulators at science museums? Do they spend their days in plummeting planes?
Oh, and Bartolo's natty outfit was inspired by James Stuart in the film Vertigo.
Shotdate | -location:
2011
Sept.
18
| Muenchen (DE)
Camera
| Filmtype:
195
| 669
(expired)
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As with the "mini-me" pictures, this was composed of little cut-outs which were positioned at different distances from the lens to create the impression of depth. The little parachutes are made from cut-out pictures, thread, freezer-bag twist thingies and selotape.
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