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Personally Identified |
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Personally Identified is a book composed of the stories and images of six queer women. It was created to allow the individuals to describe their own identities using their own images. When completed the book was distributed to all the participants. Each image you see here is a thumbnail of each individual's double page spread. The text to the right of the image is a short exerpt of what's written on the individual's page (illegible in the thumbnails).
For more information about Personally Identified, or to see the full text, please contact tori@torifoster.com. |
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I see those as kind of, oh shit, what the fuck was I going to say? Oh yeah, like, there was negative parts of myself that were ruling myself during those times, you know? It was all of my being. As opposed to now where I can tap into anger if I want to, and I can tap into loneliness and solitude and being disturbed but I don't let it define my whole being. Do you know what I'm saying? I've embraced more of a positive and artistic and open parts of myself. |
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I always knew. Like when people were playing Barbies I was playing with G.I. Joes. When people were playing with like, little Barbie cars, I was in the dirt digging with the Tonka. When I was little I enjoyed girl babysitters. Like, "Hey," you know? "She's really cute," whatever, right. I'd say something like that and always get like, a weird look. So I hid it for like a long time. I had the boyfriends and like... did I enjoy it? No! Ha ha ha. It was totally like, "Why am I doing this?" Cause I thought like, if I came out earlier after getting the crap kicked out of me already, like, it would just make it worse. |
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I think that's almost my fantasy of myself. I don't know if it actually exists in real life - to have in the middle. That I would be perceived as, and that I would feel like, someone who is in the middle. |
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I think me as a kid would have thought like, "What took you so long to find out who you were?" And like "Why did you deny yourself so long?" kinda thing. Because like I was a little boy when I was a kid, you know? I like... and I was comfortable like that, like I was, I was, all my friends were boys, and I, and like, I was never really girly, and like, I was always really uncomfortable... doing... girl type stuff. Like when ever my sister and I played Barbies I always Ken. |
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So, yeah. There's a page about me in here too. That kinda goes towards my thoughts on... artist involvement. I'm really a lot of times just as interested in the artist as I am in the artist's work. And I think it's a real hole in art where you don't know much about where the artist is coming from or who they are. Like, when you look at these people I'm interviewing, you aren't seeing these people... you're seeing them through my questions. So in order to get a more full on perspective, you need to know me too. I also think it's important to put myself through what I'm putting them through if you know what I mean. |
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I... it just never crossed my mind that that was something that I had to wear, so I always wore shorts. It was more comfortable than a girl's bathing suit and I liked it better that way. But I think of my, my kid self as being non-gendered. Very much just a kid; a youth. Like... yeah. Not a girl or a guy. Yeah, ha ha ha. It wasn't that I had to wear a shirt that got to me. I remember being at Jonathan's, um, house, swimming in his pool... er probably about to get into the pool, and realizing that it was no longer appropriate for me to be wearing trunks and that I should be wearing a girl's bathing suit. |
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No! I'm not like, trying to find it. It is! You know what I mean? It is in flux, and it will always be in flux so I'm not looking for [my identity]. Cause that doesn't even make sense to me. Ha ha ha! |
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