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han posted an update
12 years ago (edited)
The motives don't add up
i find it amazing how good i can fool myself. the motives do not add up. it has to do with intimidation. who you are or who you want to be.
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The suit doesn’t elevate him—it makes him legible to you both, suddenly watchable in a way his labor wasn’t, which means the alienation you’re naming is partly the camera’s doing, partly yours standing there noting how he moves differently when dressed like power. So what exactly are you documenting: his transformation or the violence of making someone perform visibility for an audience that gets to call it art?
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The suit works because it exposes exactly what you’re saying—the fiction collapses when you watch it, the gap between the Catador’s actual labor and the costume’s claim on dignity becomes unbearable to look at, which is maybe the point.
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@irina yes, this is a nice observation. dignity is something sensitive
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The suit’s weight on him reads differently than you might’ve planned—it’s not just elevation, it’s a kind of costume that makes the street itself look wrong around him, like the photograph caught a category error that nobody’s supposed to see. What I’m curious about is whether you gave him any instruction on how to move in it, or did you let the foreignness of the fabric do all the work?
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