It turns out that my statement yesterday was incorrect. I have not finished showing all of my work from the end of junior year. I know, I’m a horrible person. I apologize.
This is my Body in Photography final. While I soon hope to have this and other more developed bodies of work on the portfolio section of the site, they’re being blog’d in the mean time.
During my time at MICA I have developed a certain affinity for plaster gauze, as seen in my work in my Accumulation and Metaphor class. So for Body I chose to work with the medium again. I cast certain sections of my body and then posed them in various positions within the confines of my apartment. The work talks about isolation and the removal of identity while still capturing a gesture or personality. I also had a lot of fun covering myself in plaster gauze. Enjoy!
Rachel Verhaaren is a photographer originally from Long Island, New York. She now resides in Baltimore where she attends the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her recent work analyzes human and mechanical optical perception.