#023 Looking at Fumiko Imano's Work - Another kind of photo manipulation

Yesterday while printing my films, I flipped through M1's Fringe festival 2012 and saw Fumiko's Imano's work. She's also interested in manipulating her images through the collage of herself as a pair of twin. From the article, "Imano began splicing photographs of herself, creating instant twins collaged in naive, playful dashion with scissors and glue. Through this process, she creates an intriguing dialogue by being both subject and object, reality and fiction, re-staging herself in a variety of environments from home settings to famous monuments... "

It's intriguing for me to see how someone has also been playing with the idea of manipulating images and reality. Imano's creates her twin self through cutting her photos and sticking 2 selves into one. I'm playing with the idea of capturing the 'lost' relationship due to distance and time of my dad and I through juxtaposing myself to an image of where he was and is.

piggy twins, tokyo 2007

vegetable garden twins, hitachi 2008

rupert smyth and twins, art director, belrin 2006

ready to dive, nasu 2009

charles anastase and twins, designer, tokyo 2009

Here's a link to a video of how she goes about doing her work: http://ashadedviewonfashion.free.fr/videos/chapels_fumiko.htm