Artist Statement:

How am I not myself?

This is one of a number of text pieces that I am experimenting with that respond to lines from movies and television series. I believe we as a society take great influence for such media as movies and the ideas of the ‘day to day’ captured in soup operas and so I have chosen these text passages, ‘How am I not myself?’, due to it’s questioning manner of life.

It is my hope that the public may question themselves, their actions and use the phase to create dialogue after reading the query.

‘How am I not myself?’ is a line read by the actor Dustin Hoffman in the film I Heart Huckabees and was seen to impose a sudden realization of ‘being’ or existence within the recipient, Jude Law. I believe that many of us become restricted by the ideas of routine while in an urban environment and I feel the public deserves a self-awakening from such things as going to work, rush hour and bus timetables.

This text piece and it’s questioning tone will allow the viewing public to consider life while living it in a ‘thought of the day’ type way, but in a subject that everyone can relate to, themselves.

‘Everybody’s talking about it’ – BBC’s Eastenders

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TALKING CITY is Anna Francis’ Longhouse Guest Editor project, for March 2010.

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