For me, it's like those identity parades where a presumed witness is asked to point out the presumed guilty person. I'm trying to find out if I'm the same person I think I am. Which means, I suppose, the one I WAS. When? Yesterday? 20 years ago? Or much much further back? Am I guilty of nostalgia? Choosing a time when I was "really" me, as opposed to the more-or-less me whose selfie you're now seeing? It's a puzzle.
I used to paint a self-portrait nearly every year - much better kind of selfie, commonly practiced by the A-list (just noticed that A-list sound like Elites - ha!) of artists through the centuries.
That's about all I have to say on this subject for now. What do you think, if anything, about photos of yourself, taken by you or anyone else?
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Why are we so fascinated with our reflection? Because it never shows the egg that is us?
I'm always fascinated by your raised eyebrows, indicating an inquisitive nature, I think.
I have pictures of myself going back 70 years, to an infant. To the teen and 20's me I just laugh and snicker 'you had no idea, kid. none".
Mike
Leah, an egg? You mean the hidden potential? But do you really see yourself as...an egg...when you look at a photo of yourself? Explain a bit more?
Bruce, I often do raise my eyebrows in photos..not consciously..but yup, I'm inquisitive. I hope in a good way.
Mike, it's so much fun looking at one's whole life in photos and, yes, talking to one's self in retrospect too. Family albums always fascinate me, my own as well as anyone else's.
Um, am i allowed to mention that you look beautiful .... in a crumpled sort of way?
Form is like an unwrapped Christmas present. One has to untie the tie and knot before one can see the true meaning of form. Then one can make a call to tie won. ;
Davoh, of course compliments are allowed!. Crumpled...heh heh....yup!
Leah, very poetic! Tie won = Taiwan?
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