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'Self-portrait projections' (2024) From the ''I don't wanna be the best...I just wanna dance' project

By Sally Waterman 2024

Self-portrait projection No.1 (Me as a ballerina)

20x30" giclee prints

'I don’t wanna be the best, I just wanna dance' is a meditation on the artist’s childhood memory of learning to dance, in order to overcome her shyness and defy the trauma of school bullying. 

This set of six self-portraits projects the only three analogue photographs from the family album exist that provide evidence of her experience as a young dancer as well as stills from the 1980s TV series, ‘Fame’ onto her middle aged body. 

Self-portrait projection No.2 ('Fame' TV film still, 1982)

Self-portrait projection No.3 ('Fame' film still, 1980)

Self-portrait projection No.4 (Me as a frog, 1986)

Self-portrait projection No.5 (Coco 'Fame' TV film still, 1982)

Self-portrait projection No.6 (Me as an icicle, 1986)

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'Unrest' (2017) Taken from the 'Twenty' project

'Hushing the Room Enclosed' (2008) Taken from the 'Waste Land' project

'Urban Shadow Walks' (2006) Taken from the 'Waste Land' project

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