EMOTIONAL TOPOLOGIES
JENNIFER STEWART
FEBRUARY 24 - MARCH 25, 2012 | WURM GALLERY
"When I'm taking my own picture, I'm the subject, I'm in it. I'm just really capturing how I'm feeling at that moment. And then there's a time where I process the film and scan it. And sometimes that time period can be a couple weeks. And then i look at it. I look at it for a lot longer than i took it.
Once I've gone through that process, of looking at the piece, something changes. I try to make sense of it. But it's still really difficult for me to translate that experience into words. All i know is how I'm feeling.
You don't learn in school how to articulate those types of feelings, what kind of language to use. You feel happy, sad, angry, scared; those are the main emotions. And sometimes I feel all of them, and its really overwhelming. I try to share that with somebody else...and its really hard to do."
transcribed audio recording from February 23rd, 2012