Shift
Photograph Series
"Shifting your attention to something else will distract
you from pain; pain requires our full attention."
-Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses
Statement:
Touch can sometimes allow us to ease pain. Different bad habits can help pain seem bearable. In order to create a photo, my friend Vic was smoking a cigar in a dreary bathroom alone. I wanted the mood to feel like this was her escape. Cigars and cigarettes can calm you or give you a buzz, which could maybe allow a person to shift their attention from something going on in their life or maybe some sort of pain. Her attention is elsewhere, she is hoping to mask her pain.
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