Friday, January 29, 2010

a stranger to my own face

Photo: Timothy Frederick


It is weird looking at your own face. You seem backwards because you see yourself more frequently in mirrors than in photographs. That's what I'm tripping on here. I keep saying to myself, "Is that REALLY what I look like? REALLY?" Not in a good way or a bad way, but definitely with a sense of revelation. In my mind's eye, my self image as told to me -- as sold to me -- by the magic of the mirror looks nothing like the man I see in this photograph.