thingspowerthemselves http://www.thingspowerthemselves.com thingspowerthemselves Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:48:18 +0000 http://www.thingspowerthemselves.com en dogs http://thingspowerthemselves.com/dogs http://thingspowerthemselves.com/following/thingspowerthemselves.com/dogs Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:48:18 +0000 thingspowerthemselves 4856308 <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-17WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-17WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29891392" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-18WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-18WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29891394" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-14WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-14WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29891389" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-10WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-10WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29891385" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-11WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-11WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29891386" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-3WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-3WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29891754" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-1WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-1WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29891356" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-5WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-5WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29891359" border="0" align="left"/> Dogs, 2013. Within philosophy, animals and our own animality have been denigrated and disavowed; the accusation of anthropomorphism ends, in the long run, in isolating humans in the universe by refusing to admit that other creatures are in the remotest way connected to us. <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_dryer-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="513" width_o="800" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_dryer-1_o.jpg" data-mid="26584412" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_dryer-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="513" width_o="800" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_dryer-2_o.jpg" data-mid="26584371" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_dishwasher-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="513" width_o="800" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_dishwasher-1_o.jpg" data-mid="26584451" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_dishwasher-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="513" width_o="800" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_dishwasher-2_o.jpg" data-mid="26584486" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_oven-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="513" width_o="800" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_oven-2_o.jpg" data-mid="26584602" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_oven-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="513" width_o="800" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_oven-1_o.jpg" data-mid="26584658" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_microwave-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="513" width_o="800" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_microwave-2_o.jpg" data-mid="26584560" border="0" align="left"/> Appliance Series, 2013. <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/Squunz-BW_2012-1_800.JPG" width="800" height="600" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/Squunz-BW_2012-1_o.JPG" data-mid="25960719" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/Squunz-BW_2012-2_800.JPG" width="800" height="600" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/Squunz-BW_2012-2_o.JPG" data-mid="25960681" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz-BW_2_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz-BW_2_o.jpg" data-mid="25959621" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz_iphone_800.jpg" width="800" height="800" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz_iphone_o.jpg" data-mid="29588682" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz2_iphone_800.jpg" width="800" height="800" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz2_iphone_o.jpg" data-mid="29588712" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz-2013_800.jpeg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz-2013_o.jpeg" data-mid="26583941" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes-BW_2_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes-BW_2_o.jpg" data-mid="25959498" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes-BW_1_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes-BW_1_o.jpg" data-mid="25959496" border="0" align="left"/> Black and White Portraits, 2012-2013. <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz-colorinstant_3_800.jpg" width="800" height="629" width_o="800" height_o="629" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz-colorinstant_3_o.jpg" data-mid="25960204" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-colorinstant_2.jpg_800.jpg" width="800" height="634" width_o="800" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/dogs-colorinstant_2.jpg_o.jpg" data-mid="25960366" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz-colorinstant_1_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/squunz-colorinstant_1_o.jpg" data-mid="25960345" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_iphone_800.jpg" width="800" height="597" width_o="1000" height_o="747" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4856308/fuentes_iphone_o.jpg" data-mid="29588755" border="0" align="left"/> Color Portraits, 2013. Dogs, 2013. Within philosophy, animals and our own animality have been denigrated and disavowed; the accusation of anthropomorphism ends, in the long run, in... vector http://thingspowerthemselves.com/vector http://thingspowerthemselves.com/following/thingspowerthemselves.com/vector Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:48:17 +0000 thingspowerthemselves 4842768 <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842768/vectortoilet-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842768/vectortoilet-2_o.jpg" data-mid="25942433" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842768/vectortoilet-3_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842768/vectortoilet-3_o.jpg" data-mid="25942434" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842768/toiletpaper-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842768/toiletpaper-1_o.jpg" data-mid="25942424" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842768/toiletpaper-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842768/toiletpaper-2_o.jpg" data-mid="25942425" border="0" align="left"/> Toilet/Paper Study, 2013. Toilet/Paper Study, 2013. space http://thingspowerthemselves.com/space http://thingspowerthemselves.com/following/thingspowerthemselves.com/space Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:48:16 +0000 thingspowerthemselves 4842761 <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/ceiling-3_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/ceiling-3_o.jpg" data-mid="29599760" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/ceiling-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/ceiling-1_o.jpg" data-mid="29599756" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/kitchen-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/kitchen-2_o.jpg" data-mid="29599829" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/ceiline2_iphone_800.jpg" width="800" height="597" width_o="1024" height_o="765" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/ceiline2_iphone_o.jpg" data-mid="29588517" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/stairs-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/stairs-1_o.jpg" data-mid="29599845" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/kitchen-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/kitchen-1_o.jpg" data-mid="29599826" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bedroom-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bedroom-1_o.jpg" data-mid="29599740" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/interior-newpaint_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/interior-newpaint_o.jpg" data-mid="25875163" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/interior-3_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/interior-3_800_o.jpg" data-mid="25875170" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/interior-2_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/interior-2_800_o.jpg" data-mid="25875191" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/downstairs_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/downstairs_o.jpg" data-mid="25940997" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/roof_solargrid_800.JPG" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/roof_solargrid_o.JPG" data-mid="25875319" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/house-3_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/house-3_o.jpg" data-mid="25909111" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/house-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/house-2_o.jpg" data-mid="25908710" border="0" align="left"/> Interiors/Exteriors, 2012-2013. <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bath-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bath-2_o.jpg" data-mid="25940991" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bath-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bath-1_o.jpg" data-mid="25941002" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bathroom-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bathroom-1_o.jpg" data-mid="25941082" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bathroom-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bathroom-2_o.jpg" data-mid="25941083" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bathroom-3_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/bathroom-3_o.jpg" data-mid="25941084" border="0" align="left"/> Bathroom, 2013. <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-6_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-6_o.jpg" data-mid="25915797" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-1_o.jpg" data-mid="25915778" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-8_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-8_o.jpg" data-mid="25915786" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-9_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-9_o.jpg" data-mid="25915787" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-10_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/gym-10_o.jpg" data-mid="25915788" border="0" align="left"/> Pilates Studio, 2013. <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-3_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-3_o.jpg" data-mid="25904345" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-4_800.jpg" width="800" height="534" width_o="800" height_o="534" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-4_o.jpg" data-mid="25904483" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-6_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-6_o.jpg" data-mid="25906038" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-1_o.jpg" data-mid="25904202" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-2_o.jpg" data-mid="25904203" border="0" align="left"/>.<img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-5_10_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842761/postoffice-5_10_o.jpg" data-mid="25904994" border="0" align="left"/> Warehouse Space, 2011. Rita Minissi, Space Interiors/Exteriors, 2012-2013. Bathroom, 2013. Pilates Studio, 2013. Warehouse Space, 2011. Rita Minissi, Space fetish http://thingspowerthemselves.com/fetish http://thingspowerthemselves.com/following/thingspowerthemselves.com/fetish Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:48:16 +0000 thingspowerthemselves 4842767 The terms fetish and fetishism have long been used to mark specific ‘problem-ideas’ for modern social theory. Despite the use of this terminology in a variety of disciplines that claim no common theoretical ground -- the history of religion, Marxism and positive sociology, psychoanalysis and the psychiatry of sexual deviance, philosophy -- there is a common configuration of themes. Four themes that consistently inform the idea of a fetish are: (1) the untranscended materiality, (2) the historicality of its origin: rising from a singular event that creates a fixation, (3) the dependence of the fetish for its meaning and value on a particular order of social relations, and (4) the active relation of the fetish object to the living body of the individual. End-products to which the word ‘fetish’ has been applied cannot be understood simply as special kinds of objects. Rather, they reveal a combination of anthropromorphization, a fusion of symbol with meaning, and an ambiguous relationship of control between person and object. Following this sequence, what we might loosely call “fetishization” begins with a shift from the balance of signifier and signified towards ‘thing in itself’. This makes a degree of sense if we think of fetishism as an excessive belief in the symbols we make, or rather a denial of the fact that they are symbols. The fetish expresses the desire to take these symbols literally, insisting they not just "mean," but "be." In many ways, it functions as a kind of materialistic idealism by replacing the physiological with the ideal, the "reality" with the "image," and the signified with the signifier. <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/fleet-4_o_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/fleet-4_o_o.jpg" data-mid="29583324" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/fleet-1_o_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/fleet-1_o_o.jpg" data-mid="29583322" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/fleet-6_o_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/fleet-6_o_o.jpg" data-mid="29583309" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/hc-web_800_62_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/hc-web_800_62_o.jpg" data-mid="29583347" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/fleet-9_o_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/fleet-9_o_o.jpg" data-mid="29583387" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/leather-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/leather-1_o.jpg" data-mid="29599518" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/saddleinside-5_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/saddleinside-5_800_o.jpg" data-mid="29583402" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/saddleinside-9_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/saddleinside-9_800_o.jpg" data-mid="29583403" border="0" align="left"/> Leather, 2011-2013. <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/latexdetail-1_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/latexdetail-1_o.jpg" data-mid="29599470" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/latex_instant-11_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/latex_instant-11_o.jpg" data-mid="25878803" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/valdalatex_toilet-2_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/valdalatex_toilet-2_800_o.jpg" data-mid="29583083" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/valdalatex_toilet-3_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/valdalatex_toilet-3_800_o.jpg" data-mid="29583085" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/valdalatex_toilet-1_o_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/valdalatex_toilet-1_o_o.jpg" data-mid="29583092" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/coffee_table-1_o_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="965" height_o="643" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/coffee_table-1_o_o.jpg" data-mid="29583053" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/latex-2_o_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/latex-2_o_o.jpg" data-mid="29583165" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/latex-4_o_800.jpg" width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/latex-4_o_o.jpg" data-mid="29583166" border="0" align="left"/> Latex, 2012-2013. <img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/clothespins_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/clothespins_o.jpg" data-mid="25878041" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/petting-rings_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/petting-rings_o.jpg" data-mid="25891632" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/lelo_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/lelo_o.jpg" data-mid="25894319" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/plugs-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/plugs-2_o.jpg" data-mid="25896016" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/plugs_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/plugs_o.jpg" data-mid="25892876" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/picobong_2pointstimulator_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/picobong_2pointstimulator_o.jpg" data-mid="25878204" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/ridingcrops_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/ridingcrops_o.jpg" data-mid="25894725" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/ridingcrops-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/ridingcrops-2_o.jpg" data-mid="25896139" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/acucups_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/acucups_o.jpg" data-mid="25893023" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/clamps_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/clamps_o.jpg" data-mid="25895369" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/sensory-testers_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/sensory-testers_o.jpg" data-mid="25894823" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/lubetube_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/lubetube_o.jpg" data-mid="25894916" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/enhancer_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/enhancer_o.jpg" data-mid="25895263" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/ballgag_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload127.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4842767/ballgag_o.jpg" data-mid="25878251" border="0" align="left"/> Instruments of Pleasure, 2013. Lelo, Njoy, Coco de Mer, Betony Vernon, Incognito, Acucups Rita Minissi, Batch The terms fetish and fetishism have long been used to mark specific ‘problem-ideas’ for modern social theory. Despite the use of this terminology in a variety... object http://thingspowerthemselves.com/object http://thingspowerthemselves.com/following/thingspowerthemselves.com/object Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:48:14 +0000 thingspowerthemselves 3879631 <img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/semitrans-torus_2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/semitrans-torus_2_o.jpg" data-mid="26181616" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/semitrans-torus3_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/semitrans-torus3_o.jpg" data-mid="26181795" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/semitrans-torus_1_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/semitrans-torus_1_o.jpg" data-mid="26181705" border="0" align="left"/> Torus Fabrication/ Geometry Study, 2013. Models created using 3D printing technology <img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/torus-all-800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/torus-all-800_o.jpg" data-mid="20374809" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/torus3Dprint-800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/torus3Dprint-800_o.jpg" data-mid="20374816" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/acrylic-model_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/acrylic-model_800_o.jpg" data-mid="20374832" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/torus_cycle-800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/torus_cycle-800_o.jpg" data-mid="20374855" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/torus_cycle2-800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/torus_cycle2-800_o.jpg" data-mid="20374858" border="0" align="left"/> Torus Fabrication/ Geometry Study, 2011. Models created using a Universal Laser System and Z-printer rapid prototyping technology. The Torus is made by assembling identical units. Three units assemble at 90 degrees to make a module. One can make an arbitrarily long straight chain of these interconnected modules. If the number of units is a multiple of three, the modules can be curved around to close into a cycle. <img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_1_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_1_o.jpg" data-mid="25863121" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_2_o.jpg" data-mid="25863406" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_cube_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_cube_o.jpg" data-mid="25863572" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_dodecahedron_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_dodecahedron_o.jpg" data-mid="25863796" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_icosahedron_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/small-platonicsolids_icosahedron_o.jpg" data-mid="25863928" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-solid_1_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-solid_1_o.jpg" data-mid="25925471" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-platonic_2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-platonic_2_o.jpg" data-mid="25925479" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-platonic_3_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-platonic_3_o.jpg" data-mid="25925482" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-platonic_4_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-platonic_4_o.jpg" data-mid="25925484" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-platonic_5_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-platonic_5_o.jpg" data-mid="25925485" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-solids_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/large-solids_o.jpg" data-mid="25925540" border="0" align="left"/> Platonic Solids, 2012. Tetrahedron and Octahedron, Cube/ Hexahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron Models created using 3D printing technology <img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/nestedplatonicsolids_1_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/nestedplatonicsolids_1_o.jpg" data-mid="25865462" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/nestedplatonicsolids_2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/nestedplatonicsolids_2_o.jpg" data-mid="25865464" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/nestedplatonicsolids_3_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/nestedplatonicsolids_3_o.jpg" data-mid="25865465" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/nestedplatonicsolids_4_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/nestedplatonicsolids_4_o.jpg" data-mid="25865469" border="0" align="left"/> Nested Platonic Solids, 2012. Models created using 3D printing technology <img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/hypercube_1_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/hypercube_1_o.jpg" data-mid="25864611" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/hypercube_2_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/hypercube_2_o.jpg" data-mid="25864615" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/hypercube_3_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/hypercube_3_o.jpg" data-mid="25864767" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/hypercube_4_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/3879631/hypercube_4_o.jpg" data-mid="25864889" border="0" align="left"/> Hypercube, 2013. Models created using 3D printing technology Rita Minissi, Object Torus Fabrication/ Geometry Study, 2013. Models created using 3D printing technology Torus Fabrication/ Geometry Study, 2011. Models created using a... identity http://thingspowerthemselves.com/identity http://thingspowerthemselves.com/following/thingspowerthemselves.com/identity Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:48:13 +0000 thingspowerthemselves 4398562 <img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/leather_multiple_camera1-edit1WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/leather_multiple_camera1-edit1WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29581255" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/leather_multiple_camera1-edit2WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/leather_multiple_camera1-edit2WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29581261" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/leather_multiple_camera2-edit1WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/leather_multiple_camera2-edit1WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29580906" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/leather_multiple_camera2-edit2WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/leather_multiple_camera2-edit2WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29581294" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/latex_multiple_camera1-edit1WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/latex_multiple_camera1-edit1WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29581335" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/latex_multiple_camera1-edit2WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/latex_multiple_camera1-edit2WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29581370" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/latex_multiple_camera1-edit3WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/latex_multiple_camera1-edit3WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29581394" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/latex_multiple_camera2-edit2WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/latex_multiple_camera2-edit2WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="29581398" border="0" align="left"/>Replication, 2013. Remote Release Photography; Self Portraits The replicated self, as a double or copy, is a symbol of ambiguity: it discloses our longing for companionship and mutual understanding even as we revere an individual presence. In our post-industrial age, we admire the unique, then we reproduce it; replication involves making the un-made, editioning the non-editioned, and mass-producing the unproduced or singular original. It is a simulation that offers both insight into reality and escape from it – blurring the boundary between both the original and the copy. <img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_bordelle-5_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_bordelle-5_o.jpg" data-mid="30258367" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_bordelle-6_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_bordelle-6_o.jpg" data-mid="30258368" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_outside-4web_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_outside-4web_o.jpg" data-mid="30374590" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_outside-2WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_outside-2WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="30374630" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_outside-3WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_outside-3WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="30374631" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_grid-4_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_grid-4_o.jpg" data-mid="30258369" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_grid-3WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_grid-3WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="30374540" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror-2_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror-2_o.jpg" data-mid="29600526" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror-4_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror-4_o.jpg" data-mid="29600527" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror-5_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror-5_o.jpg" data-mid="29600530" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/L1000149_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/L1000149_800_o.jpg" data-mid="23841945" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/L1000162_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/L1000162_800_o.jpg" data-mid="23841948" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/falsemirror_web_800.JPG" width="800" height="548" width_o="800" height_o="548" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/falsemirror_web_o.JPG" data-mid="25866858" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/IMG_7451_800_800.JPG" width="800" height="620" width_o="800" height_o="620" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/IMG_7451_800_o.JPG" data-mid="23845052" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_zentai-5WEB_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mirror_zentai-5WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="30375492" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/falsemirror-2_800_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="667" width_o="800" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/falsemirror-2_800_800_o.jpg" data-mid="23842521" border="0" align="left"/> Mirror, 2011-2013. Remote Release Photography; Self Portraits A mirror image is a reflected duplication of an object that appears identical but reversed; in a sense, all mirror images are false to begin with - distorted. Perhaps one does not see themselves in a mirror, but another image, a projection that is not based in reality. At the same time that a mirror image makes possible the knowledge of oneself, it makes possible a sort of alienation: to see one's self as if it was an other. In this sense, we are torn from our self and the image in the mirror prepares us for another alienation - the alienation from others who have only this exterior image of us. 

Mirror self-experience offers a form of self- knowledge that can both distort and define the self-other boundary. <img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/siamese-edit_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="800" height_o="532" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/siamese-edit_800_o.jpg" data-mid="25865777" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/twinsonbed_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/twinsonbed_o.jpg" data-mid="26231465" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/meshtwins_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="800" height_o="532" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/meshtwins_800_o.jpg" data-mid="25865762" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/synthetictwin-32_800_800_800.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/synthetictwin-32_800_800_o.jpg" data-mid="25865717" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/fantasy_edit2-web_800.jpg" width="800" height="818" width_o="800" height_o="818" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/fantasy_edit2-web_o.jpg" data-mid="25865833" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mesh_twins-web_800.jpg" width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/mesh_twins-web_o.jpg" data-mid="25865851" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/fantasy_edit3-web_800.jpg" width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/fantasy_edit3-web_o.jpg" data-mid="25865883" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/meshedit_ak_800.jpg" width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/meshedit_ak_o.jpg" data-mid="25865901" border="0" align="left"/> The theory of imitative or mimetic desire is essentially that all human beings have an instinctive tendency to imitate unwittingly not only the actions, but also the attitudes and desires of others. Mimicry, as opposed to copying, produces an assimilation of one's self to that of another through emulating, adapting, and reworking one's perception and understanding of the original. To be an imitation, there must be a clearly perceptible difference from the original: the imitation is faithful in one or more senses, but not for all: it resembles a single isolated perception, not the complete reality. The problem faced by individuals is that mimesis, left unchecked, actually causes a loss of identity: the cycle that occurs, through the imitation of behavior and retaliation, starts to cause a breakdown of boundaries until even distinguishing the self from the other becomes less clear. Imitation, 2011. Reproduction of 2009 thesis project, Self and Other. Creative Concept/ Art Direction/ Posing: Rita Minissi Remote Release Photography: Scout Paré-Phillips Retouching: Scout Paré-Phillips Mesh-Edits, Fantasy-Edits, Siamese-Edit: Rita Minissi Models: Scout Paré-Phillips and Rita Minissi <img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-8_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-8_o.jpg" data-mid="29676785" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-29_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-29_o.jpg" data-mid="29680113" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-5_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-5_o.jpg" data-mid="29679491" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-50_33_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-50_33_o.jpg" data-mid="29696843" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-40_28_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-40_28_o.jpg" data-mid="29680218" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-20_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-20_o.jpg" data-mid="29678381" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-35_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-35_o.jpg" data-mid="29677934" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-41_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-41_o.jpg" data-mid="29678229" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-31_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-31_o.jpg" data-mid="29678080" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-33_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-33_o.jpg" data-mid="29678301" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-14_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-14_o.jpg" data-mid="29679107" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-26_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-26_o.jpg" data-mid="29678739" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-3_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-3_o.jpg" data-mid="29679704" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-6_800.jpg" width="700" height="519" width_o="700" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload104.cargocollective.com/1/6/213048/4398562/not_me2008-6_o.jpg" data-mid="29679407" border="0" align="left"/> At first glance, impersonation seems to be a stylizing of reality in which the ordinary features of our world are brought into focus by a certain exaggeration, the relationship of the impersonation to the object it impersonates being something like the relationship of dancing to walking; it always involves selecting something from the continuum of experience, thus giving boundaries to what really has no beginning or end. This is a framing of reality that announces that what is contained within the frame is simply not real - thus the more “real” the impersonation, the more fraudulent it becomes. Impersonation is interesting because you put something of yourself into it; you assume the facade of another and you don’t disappear, you remain you, underneath. Re-Authoring the Self and Others: Impersonation, 2008. Models: Sasha Santillan, Andrew Erdrich, Avery Peña, Kristi O'Meara, Kyle Devine, Dan Crane, Christine Stormberg, Kate Smithson Remote Release Self Portraits by Participants; full set included 158 portraits, 16 participants Rita Minissi, Image Replication, 2013. Remote Release Photography; Self Portraits The replicated self, as a double or copy, is a symbol of ambiguity: it discloses our longing for...