Challenging the Aesthetics of Mythic Identity
Challenging the Aesthetics of Mythic Identity / Holes In the Mask 2016
Digital Photographs
Images: The artist
In this series of masked self-portraiture, I am performing my identity through manipulating fact and fiction. As a response to historic racism and oppression, I seek to challenge the white, western, male gaze that has mythologised and stereotyped Indigenous identity since colonisation, and provide a subterfuge by which to return it.