My Normalcy is an ongoing photo project (I have 8 body parts so far) that challenges modern conceptions of the normal and abnormal body. I asked for people to come forward to be photographed from my community who had, what they thought were, unique, unusual, unconventional or remarkable body parts. I photographed these body parts with a Polaroid camera. I also interviewed the people involved and asked them for their stories. I then reduced the interviews to a piece of appropriate text to accompany the image. These are some of the results.
"I don't want to necessarily say it colours my perception of the
world, it’s more like a filter. Where rather than there being a smooth
transition there’s a kind of antagonism. There’s a kind of intermittent signal.
A noise.”
“Sometimes I
feel abnormal in a good way, like a superhero, and sometimes abnormal, like a
fool or an idiot or different or weird. And normal because I’m used to it, like
to imagine myself without it would make me very confused.”
“My physical
connection to it is, of course, everything, because you touch everything with
your hands all the time.”
“I kind of just
related it to this macro and micro cosmic thing where I realized that my body
is out of balance and the world is out of balance. Maybe I can bring the world
into better balance by working on my self and my own body and, you know, trying
to resolve that.”
