Some recent thoughts on the auto-ethnographic process: When choreographing identity you are tasked with sifting through and deciding which aspects of you that you want to investigate, question, make visible, and manipulate through the art making process. In this undertaking, you begin to reorganize your everyday priorities in attention. You begin to notice parts of you that perhaps you’ve avoided in the past. The heightened attention you give to these parts may cause t

How do you make one minute feel compelling? Complete? How do you craft a condensed beginning, middle, end? How do you show a passage of time? A transformation? In the first weeks of the semester I started a practice of filming my feet walking the same path diagonally across my backyard toward an exposed root, past which my camera would sit. At the end of each walk I would stand, taking in the textures beneath my feet, interacting with the sensations those textures produced. I