Self Portraits

Shannon Kernaghan explores the unique and rapidly changing moods that affect our daily life and the people who circle us. Do the uploaded images on social media present the real you? Are you, instead, donning a well-practiced mask of vague happiness to prevent others from seeing you too closely? SELF PORTRAITS: by evolving the modern selfie, Kernaghan depicts styles that represent fluid emotions. While not intending to be her finest or most perfect depiction, each self portrait is her in that moment: how she shapes herself and nurtures self-acceptance through the lens she wants to be seen. Either take the best of her– your choice – or put her pieces together for the complete package. A self portrait can reveal much more when moved beyond the constraints of a straightforward exercise – are these moods mine? Yours? Maybe ours.