“In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.”
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
An exploration in becoming more acquainted with individuals at the Maine College of Art through a series of questions, hand prints, and photographs during the fall of 2011.
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“anything that can fly i would be down with.
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seagull.
i just want to fly.”
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however, great hatred for green apples only only only only only red delicious only only
sometimes, i’m goofy. sometimes, i’m quiet.
sometimes,
i like having pretend shoelaces because it fucks with people’s heads.
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“i’d love to be able to teleport... i’d try and help people in last second situation sort of things, you know, the sort of situation that is life or death. for seven years of my life, i wanted to be a police officer to help people. i still want do that, but being in art school doesn’t really give you the oppurtunity to be able to do so. that’s why teleportation would be awesome.”
“it’s really painful not be in a photo class right now. my junior year of highschool, i went to thailand with my dad; my dad travels so often, he wanted me to take photos. as we traveled, i fell in love with photography. i brought that love with me back home and i’ve been taking photos since.”
“fucking
hilarious business lobster
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“i’m a happy person and i like happy things. my favorite color is blue and everything i buy is colored blue. people tend to associate blue with sadness, but i don’t see it that way at all.”
“i’m lucky to have grown up with a great family. dinner is never boring. i have three siblings, so it’s always interesting. my parents are silly, but stern. it’s just a relaxing and overall good time. whenever we go out to a diner, i always buy eggs benedict, no matter what.”
“i’ve grown and changed so much this past year. being a freshman last year, i just did not know what to expect out of not just other situations and other people, but myself. i have a better sense of myself this year; i know how hard i need to push myself and i can see how much more intelligent i’ve become about art.”
big messy passionate about
globs of paint globs of paint globs of paint globs of paint
painting messy, colorful. an equal passion to space lots, lots, lots of space paintings; space documentaries always on.
bedroom is a cozy den to escape to when needed.
gratuitous amounts of blankets: goodwill cast-aways, grandma afghans. very cozy, nice lighting, visually stimulating.
“slash nerd”
“slash nerd”
“slash loud”
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“young, kind gentleman” “slash loud”
“yes, i’m definitely a very loud child.”
“when i was 2 years old, i fell out of a window, my nose got caught to the screen, and it’s deformed now.
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“i took a really cool picture of a lion through glass, when i was seven or eight. my mom kept telling me that it was such a good photo, because you couldn’t even see the glass of the captivity it was in. also, it was a very nice and detailed photo, which showed my ability of using a camera. so i started taking photos from that day on.”
“hell yeah, i would go straight up to a lion now to take a photograph of it. straight up, right next to a wild lion that could bite my head off. maybe even poke it.”
Photography and book design by Nicole Holmes. http://www.nicoleholllmes.tumblr.com Š Nicole Holmes, Portland, Maine 2011