A BILLION SELFIES ARE TAKEN AND SHARED EVERY DAY.
WHAT DO THEY REALLY REVEAL ABOUT US?
This project is an exploration of the sense of self. We all have one. We feel like we have some continuity in time and that we are distinct from someone else. We can point to ourselves in the past or the future. And yet when we look at who is doing the pointing, we can’t find any particular thing, just a field of sensations which is the thing that we were pointing at in the first place.
What a strange folding-in-on-itself.
Inner Selfies is an open-community art project by Hanif Janmohamed and Maria Lantin for public-engagement in a Maker Space at the Community Gallery at the AGO and a digital creation tool online. The artists invite us to reflect on self and no-self and to consider questions about our selfie culture. The visual metaphor of a Brain Scan provides the frame for a co-creation of thoughtful, human-made, poetic representations of identity and self.
They could be you.
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THERE'S NOTHING TO DO BUT PRAY I THINK IT'S TIME TO FIND A NEW RELIGION... From the mind and hand of I DON'T KNOW
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A VIVIR! ... From the mind and hand of GIANCARLO, PRODUCER [PD], Action/Details
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FASHION IS THE ARMOUR TO SURVIVE THE REALITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE ...From the mind and hand of LAURA
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LET GO OF WHO YOU THINK YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AND EMBRACE WHO YOU ARE... From the mind and hand of STELLA MCGLASHAN, EXPLORER [ER], Ideas/Big Picture
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MY BRAIN IS A THREE RING CIRCUS... From the mind and hand of RING LING, PRODUCER [PD], Action/Details
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MIGRATION SEQUENCE...A train, a garden, insides in the world. A cup of coffee in a blanket... From the mind and hand of ELLIMAC
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TO HAVE A RAINBOW YOU NEED TO HAVE RAIN... From the mind and hand of CODING KITTY
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SPECIAL PLACE...The younger kids section of my school, where my friends and I used to play pretend and could easily pass for different personas. It was creative but it also made me happy and comfortable in my body. From the mind and hand of LAKSHMI, CONNECTOR [CN], Relationships/Big Picture
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NO WORDS... From the mind and hand of, MYSELF, OPTIMIZER [OP], Process/Details
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NOT I... From the mind and hand of WELL, I DON'T KNOW, REALLY, PRODUCER [PD], Action/Details
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CURRENT OBSERVATION... there is chocolate cake nearby... From the mind and hand of WELL, I DON'T KNOW, REALLY, PRODUCER [PD], Action/Details
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FEEDBACK... Easier to fill out when I'm less tired!
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FEEDBACK... Ok, this experience on my crappy phone, while curiously slow, was amazing. It bumped my pool results over the midpoint... 6!
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FEEDBACK... Zoom baby zoom
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FEEDBACK... so far all things are far from equal, and when they are, we will all be perfect and die of boredom.
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FEEDBACK... so far all things are far from equal, and when they are, we will all be perfect and die of boredom.
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FEEDBACK... so far all things are far from equal, and when they are, we will all be perfect and die of boredom.
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FEEDBACK... Thank you
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FEEDBACK... thanks for making me feel an artist and a poet
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FEEDBACK... just try to be kind every day to everyone
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FEEDBACK... A nice ride to the Fraser River.
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FEEDBACK... A nice day at the office
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FEEDBACK... Why do we have only two cents, while we have five senses? It's not very sensible.
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FEEDBACK... fun!!
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FEEDBACK... we all interpret words differently
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FEEDBACK... 2¢
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FEEDBACK... It was my birthday yesterday!
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FEEDBACK... it’s been a while
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FEEDBACK... I enjoyed doing this activity
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FEEDBACK... It’s interesting
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FEEDBACK... This was neat.
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FEEDBACK... !?!
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FEEDBACK... wishing for peace and love for my body, mind and spirit
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EVERYTHING CHANGES ...From the mind and hand of ENIGMA, ENERGIZER [EN]Action/Big Picture
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A MUSH OF COLOURFUL THOUGHTS LIVE HERE ...From the mind and hand of JUNKO JONES, OPTIMIZER [OP]Process/Details
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LOST/FOUND ... I've lost my faith in the power of the greater good. I've found truths I would prefer not to know. ...From the mind and hand of JUNKO JONES, OPTIMIZER [OP]Process/Details
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CURRENT OBSERVATION… A quiet city, a sprawling plant, a messy living room, a fireplace that looks like Darth Vader.
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EMOTIONAL DOMAIN… Right now it feels like a windswept sand dune.
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LOST/FOUND... lost my way, found my inner-selfie
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MEMORY STACK... The sound of my skates on the ice. The echo in the ice rink. The odd smell of an artificially frozen surface. The smell of sweaty hockey gear.
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CURRENT OBSERVATION... Broccoli is a good vegetable. It stands the test of time. It is versatile. It keeps well. It looks like shrunken trees. In fact, I thought that's what they were...boiled down to nothing. Poor trees.
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SOUNDTRACK... Laurie Anderson, Prince, Matmos, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Björk, Leonard Cohen
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MIGRATION SEQUENCE… Riviere-du-Loup, Clarks Summit, Sherbrooke, Moncton, Halifax, Ottawa, Vancouver, Canmore, Vancouver.
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DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS... a quieter world where a person can get a good night's sleep - the more to dream.
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LOST/FOUND... lost my fru fru, found that I didn't need it. FRU FRU JOHNSON.
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SPECIAL PLACE… The forest – TRUE HOME… Right here.
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MEMORY STACK… The smell of field strawberries under foot, the feel of red velvet, the feel of freshly collected clay, the smell of the pulp mill down the road.
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STORY… I fell asleep on the grassy meadow. I dreamt that I had fallen asleep in the middle of a war zone. I was sooo tired, and it just didn't matter, I needed to sleep. I awoke in a grassy meadow but still felt vulnerable.
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STORY… The colours in my head. A song came into my head, it was like a Beatles tune about combing colours in my head, it was a sing-songy song, trippy and lippy, like slo-mo cartwheels in the air.
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STORY… Where do ideas come from? Where do they go? Sometimes the rhythm is wrong and hitting the right notes is totally random.
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STORY… Birds are chirping, yet things seem bleak. The overhang casts its long shadow - it feels like a brain pain.
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CURRENT OBSERVATION… wow - what a cool drawing im looking at!
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SOUNDTRACK… oh my goodness, like a kid in a candy store, I remain frozen with the embarrassment of the choices in front of me.
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GIFTS/CHALLENGES… Gifts: a dogged persistence, a naive optimism, rose-coloured glasses. I am challenged by the demons of stupidity - out! out!
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STORY… long live Ukraine. Every night when I go to bed I know someone is waking up to tremendous suffering and impossible hardship.
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LOST/FOUND… I lost a friend. I found grace.
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CURRENT OBSERVATION…Saturday bustle at the beach. Dogs being walked. Still a mess in my living room. My rumbling stomach.
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EMOTIONAL DOMAIN… Calm with some ambiguous clouds in the distance.
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MIGRATION SEQUENCE… Quebec City, Riviere-du-Loup, Clark Summit, Sherbrooke, Moncton, Halifax, Ottawa, Vancouver, Canmore, Vancouver, ....and often Montreal.
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TRUE HOME… the ground beneath my feet.
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CURRENT OBSERVATION… halfway!
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From the mind and hand of ANTONIONI ABALLOMANI THE SECOND, PRODUCER [PD]
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GIFTS/CHALLENGES…I came with the gift of gab, and yet, I'm challenged by preferring to stay silent. Is this what is meant by a pair o docs?
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...and the cat came back the very next day...
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DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS... Recently I dreamt that I battled marketers by traveling to other dimensions. My weakness was my love of animals. They exploited that mercilessly. But their weakness was the word "no". I learned quickly.
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IT CAME OUTTA NOWHERE AND THEN I WAS IN IT AND IT WAS IN ME
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EMOTIONAL DOMAIN... Clear ocean water waiting for the tide to ebb.
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FAVOURITE THINGS... tomatoes and basil. Made for summer flavour.
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MIGRATION SEQUENCE... For a while I lived in a yellow trailer in Florida. That felt like a home.
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LOST/FOUND… Friends, mentors, treasures, places, directions, destinations, my hand, my words, my mind, both lost and found
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Later there are flies with watches on them. Time flies. But I also see them as time bugs. Discrepancies. The way we feel time is buggy….some times.
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