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Fingerprints and Socialization. Digital Photography & Photoshop Laser Print. 15" x 58" (including mat). 2003.
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* Winner of the Best of Show Award. Digital Artists of Hawai'i Annual Exhibition. 2003.
This series was a project on identification. I combined my concept of identity as something that sets one apart from others by incorporating physical landmarks, such as birthmarks, tattoos, and scars. Conversely, by highlighting only these physical markers and hiding other attributes usually used for identification, I retained a degree of model anonimity. I felt that this degree of ambiguity lessened the likelihood that viewers would get sidetracked identifying individuals and focused attentions more on the concepts behind the images. Traditional and sociological definitions of identity relate more to an individual's association within a group, so I ordered my images to read from more individual physical markations on the left to tribal scarification that identifies one as a member of a larger group on the far right. The images include text excerpts from Talcott Parsons’s Social Structure and Personality, relating his and Sigmund Freud's ideas concerning the step-by-step process by which an infant is socialized into society.
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