Who am I? ...
The concept of the self is an interesting one. How does one define the self? The self is always changing and is impacted by many factors. I tried to determine these factors and their effects for myself using photography, digital collage, and pigment printing. Through this experience, I learned that, at least for me, I am the accumulation of all my thoughts, feelings, memories, experiences, successes, failures, history, morals, hopes, fears, and more. I want viewers to feel more comfortable exploring their own sense of self and possibly learn something about themselves just by looking at my work. This is also why I chose photography as my medium and nature as my subject. Nature is something everyone is familiar and mostly comfortable with. Through this process, I realized that in defining myself, I was also defining what I believe is beautiful. I found that bright, ephemeral colors sharply contrasted with silhouettes of stationary objects are what I consider to be the prettiest compositions.
Leslie Weekley ‘21
Advisor: Bridget Murphy Milligan
All images copyright © 2021 Leslie Weekley. All rights reserved.
Hoofbeats, archival pigment print, 2021
Hoofbeats (details), archival pigment print, 2021
Logging, archival pigment print, 2021
Hills, archival pigment print, 2021
If You Need It, archival pigment print, 2021
If You Need It (detail), Archival pigment print, 2021