Perspective Of

Presentation Type

Art Show

Conference Date

Spring 4-17-2026

Abstract

The work represents myself internally. Wrestling with yourself and your own identity internally while presenting yourself as someone you’re not to everyone outside. My piece contains hundreds of individual self portraits randomly collaged to form the shape of my own silhouette, with 4 large scale prints paired with 2-3 small pinhole portraits. Each image has a different pose, angle, expression, and level of clothing. By exposing myself to this vulnerable position, wearing less and less, it invites the viewer to different perceptions. How is the body perceived depending on what the person is wearing? How would a stranger, my mother, a partner, friends, or classmates and coworkers all see this differently? Relation plays a large part in the perception of gender. People who know me will know how I identify and how I express it. A stranger would simply see me as a woman and take no time to question that. While working, I did what I was comfortable with in myself. Over 1000 photos were taken. Some were left out because they did not fit what I was trying to do, some were left out because while I was comfortable photographing alone, I am not comfortable showing those images. I feel they are important to the work and its meaning, but that idea of perception still scares me.
The piece itself is clogged, overwhelming, and confusing. It is difficult to tell what you are looking at and take it in from afar. Once you take a step closer you can clearly see what is being presented to you. It forces the viewer to get in close to fully understand what they are seeing, viewing the work in small sections. The same way that I am not outward about my identity, and you only find it by getting closer. The confusion and overwhelmedness is the same feeling I get around my identity. I am not transgender, nor non-binary, or cis, but it does not bother me when people call me a woman, man, or anything else. I leave my gender up to what the person sees me as, not to how I identify. I myself do not entirely understand my identity, but I am content in this confusion. I accept it. Now the viewer is the one that has this confusion thrown on them, and it is meant to make them find their own contentment in me.
I am content with the outcome of the piece for now, but I can’t help but feel that there is much to be changed and added. As my perception is ever flowing.

Presenter

Alexis Persicke

Faculty Mentor

Kristine Thompson

Award

2nd Place, LSU College of Art & Design

Academic Major

Studio Art

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