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Are you Content?

_{This project was born from an interest in identity and the stories and circumstances that make up who somebody is. I wanted to show a variation of perspectives so I asked the same question to 6 people of different ages, genders and backgrounds to see the ways that
perspective changes depending on the point in your life you are at.

Gillian Wearing’s work ‘Signs that Say
What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To
Say’ influenced this project. Her candid videos and photographs reveal the disconnect between inner lives and
public personas. They alternately embrace ironic, confessional, poignant, and unsettling
sensibilities. Inspired by documentary television, Wearing’s portraits grant access to the
inner lives of strangers and to the artist herself. Each photograph tells a story, it gives the viewer an insight into a deeper emotion that the
subject is feeling rather than the surface level presumptions we make when looking at
somebody.}