• Luanne May
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How do you look
?(printed portraits on a series of mirrors, 1999)








Identity and human expression means nothing, a non-indication of the entire self. It is provisional just like a full stop. The next sentence will take nearly all of it back. The voice of self expression may say "I need to say something, just now" It is not forever, not universally true. It is not guaranteed or sealed with a badge of approval. It is now, only here and now. This is what I mean; and for this particular moment, this is who I am. Full stops don't really exist and nor does my image of self identity. We gaze at floating signs and human gestures which are continuously subject to change. What we hold dear in this moment, may soon be rejected and forgotten in the next. Images are constantly changing, ambiguous and misunderstood. Similarly, like existence, the gestural gaze doesn't last forever and the "mirror of the soul" isn't always so highly polished!(L.M.Downs 1995)