living talk
Put your best face
forward with Lethbridge’s
only time capsule project
celebrating our country’s
150th birthday.
The future of Lethbridge art is tubular!
roots in the long tradition of self-portraiture in the arts and
a basic human impulse to fi x themselves in a time and place.
“We like to make fun of selfi es,” says Kelaine. “We think
of them as being vain and narcissistic, but lots of people
engage with the selfi e as a regular form of self-expression.”
Not only are selfi es a distinctly contemporary
phenomenon, digital photos, unlike physical objects, can
offer a more intimate portrait of people’s lives in 2017. “We
are programmed at a very basic level to recognize faces and
bond with faces,” Kelaine explains. “When we see historical
pictures of people from the past, we have a sense that they
were real people rather than from reading a history text or
looking at an object. I think it changes our relationship with
the past and hopefully that will have the same effect on the
people in the future.”
“I hope people have fun with it and think of their
surroundings and what they are wearing and the messages
that those things communicate,” Kelaine states. Anyone
interested in participating in the selfi e project will have all
day June 24 to take their photos and send them to the AAC
at selfi [email protected].
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