Images are pretending

After reading Baudrillard on simulacra, I found it hard to treat images as documents. Much of the footage I create feels like fake memories—things that never really happened, but still trigger real emotions in me.

Douglas Crimp wrote that we’re no longer “representing reality”—we’re constantly re-appropriating existing visual systems. That’s how I feel too: I’m not “expressing who I am,” but rather choosing who I want to appear as, and collaging that into something recognizable. Something that can be perceived—even if it’s not fully known.