J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Jess T. Dugan
Episode #43, Summary
Look at me like you love me is a lyrical exploration of relationship to self and others in image and text.
Episode Notes
Jess Dugan utilizes their skilled observation and keen awareness of the dynamics of portraiture to pose questions on love, loss, risk, trust and belonging. Sixty poetic images possessed of affection and agency, are intermixed with poignant and highly personal prose, to create an object of beauty and an accompaniment to the trials and triumphs of a fully lived life.
In this conversation, Jess Dugan discusses, among other things:
Following desire
Being led by attraction
Looking to pictures to learn
Regulating the emotional space of portraiture
Ethics of care
Practice as process
Protecting creative space
Expanding the gaze - beyond identity
Capturing ambiguity
Personal storytelling as a model of possibility
Referenced in the episode
Every Breath We Drew - Jess T Dugan
To Survive on This Shore - Jess T Dugan, Vanessa Fabbre
Fine Arts Workshop Provincetown - Intimate Portraits led by Jess T Dugan
The Queer Indigenious Artists Reclaiming a Fluid Sense of Gender - The New York Times Style Magazine
Notes on Fundamental Joy - Carmen Winant
Brainstorm - Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
In Lieu of Flowers - Caleb Cole
Art After Stonewall 1969-1989 - Weinberg
Becoming Sisters: Women Photography Collective & Organizations
Look at me like you love me Spotify Playlist
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