This Is Your Life
... is an amendment to the series This Is Not Your Life 2006-2009, consisting of only one piece titled Coda. This image, like those of the previous series, appears vaguely surreal. The familiar face of Martin as a child is older, more pronounced in her misery.
Martin has superimposed her face, at age eight, over the head of her four-year-old self. It is a decided effort to possess herself, while in conflicting states of innocence and corruption, naiveté and cynicism. To make herself, in some way, whole. The contrast in artistic intent exposes the illusory devices of the earlier series.
Coda is an act of pitch-black-absurd metafiction. One that concludes the escapist premise of This Is Not Your Life with grim, yet mocking acceptance of the past.
Martin has superimposed her face, at age eight, over the head of her four-year-old self. It is a decided effort to possess herself, while in conflicting states of innocence and corruption, naiveté and cynicism. To make herself, in some way, whole. The contrast in artistic intent exposes the illusory devices of the earlier series.
Coda is an act of pitch-black-absurd metafiction. One that concludes the escapist premise of This Is Not Your Life with grim, yet mocking acceptance of the past.
