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‘ETERNALLY_ME’ by TASHI
PRIMARY - 29 NOV 2016
"One week after moving in with two of the most beautiful people I've ever met, I asked to use one of their balconies, and strolled naked outside into the open air to shoot myself. Mirror facing mirror, I arranged the shoot in a way that reminded me of the bed I used to have back home in Shanghai, where my parents still live. On that bed, I remember lying down at night and looking into the mirror at the foot of the bed, only to see the reflection from the mirror behind me on the headboard, and the reflections just carried on forever. Connecting with that feeling of being home, being comfortable, and being a child again, I fell into the photoshoot easily, and tried to experiment with recreating the eternal reflections. I didn't necessarily feel beautiful or glamorous, but I felt open and confident, connecting with a past me that had grown into the present me who is whole and fragmented at the same time. Excuse the flowery language, my film degree has made me more pretentious than I'd like to be."

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