To capture The Unknown in a purely visual way is often difficult because what we perceive or feel, or even seem to see, about something is not always what we actually see. One needs to capture an essence or a perception rather than a strict physical appearance. So you have to discover or decide what the essence or the perception is first; and that is where it all begins i.e. repurposing the vernacular language of the photograph.
Inspired by an axiom of Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex” Life starts with a collapse; without a doubt! She was ready to live this traumatized terrain promising herself to become invisible. The torment in her soul inevitably kept this quest going throughout her life. There is something sinister about your body — told by the society. Her sexuality was under obnoxious scrutiny and was protected. Ideas and values of femininity were injected in her day and night. Although she was born a Human, but she became a Woman. The eyes she used to explore herself and life, weren’t hers actually. Yes, she had eyes nonetheless she did not have gaze. It was male gaze all along. She was seeing the seen but she was not the seer. By and by he turned her pliant nature into nothing but an ossified conundrum. Dedicated to my philosophy teacher; Shehzad Amjad.
