create a long portrait of a subject of your choosing and during the process expose them to external stimuli of your choosing be it auditory, visual, haptic, olfactory or taste or a combination of some or all.
In order to get inspired I looked on youtube to see how a long portrait could be interpret. I had a lot of trouble to come up with an idea for this. I came across the Long portrait of Riley Maclean. This is a self portrait while listening to his favorite music. That brought me some ideas but I didn’t want to copy the style. But, It will be the first time and probably the last time I will do a self portrait.
Concept
The concept for this portrait was Laughter. I think the world needs a bit more of that. So I wanted to create something that would make you smile. I know that I can laugh because other people have an funny laugh even though the joke doesn’t always come to mind. So what did I do? I turned on a youtube video of Kevin Heart (comedian) and laughed really hard about it. Kevin Heart is one of few comedians I like, and he did a good job making me laugh.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2so76SI78M