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I did a performance during lockdown, and that is about humanbehavoir during that period, it was dark everybody wearing masks, and i just make a portret of a surrealistical personality who is eating a bread....im the oneWho is looking with my nude.......
Dressed and undressed, eating and watching.......
Human behavior

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  1. LL Cool SheilsMay 3, 2023 at 9:14 PM

    I like the composition of your image. It has an underwater quality to it from how the light falls upon your body. Certainly lockdown evoked many surrealist situations - your performative response to your own lockdown experience reminds me of the orchestra on the Titanic, playing a waltz as the ship sank and chaos was all around them. You sit eating bread, eyeing the audience back as they watch you. Bravo!

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  2. Demeter DykesMay 9, 2023 at 11:25 AM

    Is the eating of bread about a hunger, loss, disconnection or about sustenance, nurturing, defiance?

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  3. Jessica WarrenMay 9, 2023 at 12:29 PM

    I see this as a prompt of human condition in a time when we was all hidden away, faces covered, private lives.

    Us living in a natural form, some people didn’t need to work, the government gave some support, worries of a normal life began to fade away.. we became almost how we should have always been. Like animals, not worrying about how others perceive us, eating and living.

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  4. Kristen ElizabethMay 9, 2023 at 4:09 PM

    Something I love about this image is its call back to early black and white cinematography, particularly that in the German Expressionist era. Speaking of Covid, a time of feeling trapped within our own human behaviour, the lines of the light act as bars across a window. While free within the image, there is a sense of being trapped even when the only thing holding us back is the light within the image. Cascaded across the body, it becomes a cage in and of itself.

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