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Power By Proxy is an ongoing documentary series about Connor Parks who confronts his experience with anxiety and sexuality through his alter ego, Proxy. In late 2018 I began shooting Connor through intimate and long-form documentary practice, where I was introduced to the surface layers of his identity(ies), with particular focus on his character underneath the mask.
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"I'm remembering myself again, switching bodies with someone, this time a really hot guy - white beard, brown hair and then all of a sudden he's groping me and telling me how awesome my ass is. ..
This dream started with me driving with my Dad in our old neighbourhood, talking about Rachel, when suddenly I see the man I switch bodies with"
- Excerpt from Connor's Dream Journal September 2014 -
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Later in 2019, I explored deeper into some of Connor's specific psychological experiences including his dreams, his onstage/offstage lifestyle, anxiety, sexual fetishism and the interplay of darkness and light in his life. Collaborating more playfully with these themes, we created a series of portraits to communicate these experiences and provide an understanding of life with an alter ego. While this series is a work in progress, it aims to inform on the therapeutic merit of creating a other self as a form of processing and reflection. The series also includes letters, journal entries, dreams and other archival material as research into the practice of understanding ones identity better.
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Dreams
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Anxiety
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Darkness & Light
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