I always try to make it an assignment to myself to look up and research intensely any artists spoken about in class that I am not too entirely familiar with. Gillian Wearing was brought up last class and I wrote her name down in between the notes "objectification: denying narrative" and "what's your responsibility?" In the "Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say" piece she went around to people on the street and asked them what they were thinking. The result showed a dialogue between private life and public opinion. In the series "Album", Wearing wears masks she had made that resemble her family members, and a few of herself at different ages. It plays on the spooky feeling that it is possible to look at an ancient photo of an old family member that resembles you in an uncanny way yet you have never met them; doppelganger within the family who is a part of you. I am interested in the personal and intimate ideas Wearing portrays in these two works, and especially the concept of self-reflection after looking into someone else first.
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