self portrait, 2021
As a young image and video creator, I have always understood these practices as a way I have of expressing and discovering myself. Self portrait is a work where I intended to overturn my artistic vision and personality through the use of color and the interaction between image and sound. My name, Azul in Spanish, translates to Blue in English. It is not by chance that I feel strongly connected and represented by this pigment. This work explores the color blue and seeks to conveys what it means to me.
The photographs you can see in the video are a personal archive of polaroids I have taken throughout my teen and pre teen years. This medium is very special to me since it has allowed me to explore photography from a very organic and raw place. It has been for me an intuitive way of learning photography and understanding how color works in an image. For this video I selected polaroids that present a blue palette in order to convey a sort of connection between the color and myself, in a way trying to transmit nostalgia, altogether denoting the power that the color posesses.