In My Husband’s Eyes: Self-Portrait No. 2

*A funny side note here: Jason has a terrible habit of forgetting to change from these prescription sunglasses to his regular glasses (he keeps threatening to get Transitions lenses). Even though our attention had just been focused (haha, no pun intended) on his sunglasses, he still forgot to change them when we went into the house.

So to make the comment that borders on the cliché, I will just say that I would probably be a lot kinder to myself if I actually did see myself through Jason’s eyes more often. He is not critical of me (except occasionally constructively), which I appreciate incredibly whenever I allow myself to believe it. Also, I’ve had “In Your Eyes,” by Peter Gabriel, in my head all afternoon.

A comment that Jen made on yesterday’s post got me thinking again about my purposes in this self-portrait project. Initially I probably thought my main point was to allow myself to become more comfortable in front of the camera. But if that’s the case, then today’s image doesn’t really work—you wouldn’t even know that it is me in the reflection unless I told you (and Simon actually looked at it and said, “Dada!”).

In other words, my purposes as well as my feelings about myself and the photos are all kind of tangled up and actually changing as we go along. However, I do think it would be safe to say that my point, at least in part, is simply to create seven images of myself that are hopefully somewhat interesting and that allow me to stretch creatively.