Julia Abraham

PHOTOBASED

I intend to point to the notion that we take into ourselves our experiences by showing that our receiving senses swallow our experiences. I utilise my body as a camera obscura by using my mouth as the body of the camera, therefore photographically documenting my experience from within the human body. By turning my body into the camera I am documenting the passage of the internalisation of experience. In following the same principles of the traditional camera obscura, I place a piece of photographic paper in the back of my mouth and cover the opening of my mouth with a black shield and microscopic pinhole. The resulting photographs, sized approximately 2 x 2 inches taken within and by my mouth, are enlarged as to proclaim that the final stage of the internalisation process is externalisation, projected and expelled from the body.

Internalisation of Land. Camera obscura photographs taken with human mouth. Digital print 30 x 30 inches. 2009. Image published in Torontoist online magazine, April 2009.

Internalisation of Land. Camera obscura photographs taken with human mouth. Digital print 30 x 30 inches. 2009.

JULIA ABRAHAM