Olivia Anderson

Photographer
The Sum of My Parts
   
Public Project
The Sum of My Parts
Copyright Olivia Anderson 2025
Updated Oct 2023
Topics Abstract, Art, Conceptual, Disability, Editorial, Emotion, Essays, Happiness, Isolation, Journalism, Loneliness, Macro, Medication, Mental Illness, Pandemics, Personal, Personal Projects, Perspectives, Photo essay, Photo story, Photography, Photojournalism, Portrait, Portraiture, Sorrow, Yearning, Youth
Summary
Am I greater than the sum of my parts? Maybe, but what happens when someone actually sees the full picture? There is far less control in that, and much more to be lost. This is a study on the feeling, causes, and effects of self-isolation. When everything seems most volatile, the easiest way to combat it is to confine the universe to my room without daring to let anyone or anything pass through. It is lonely yet intentional, a duality that I hoped to capture in the images themselves.
Am I greater than the sum of my parts? Maybe, but what happens when someone actually sees the full picture? There is far less control in that, and much more to be lost. This is a study on the feeling, causes, and effects of self-isolation. When everything seems most volatile, the easiest way to combat it is to confine the universe to my room without daring to let anyone or anything pass through. It is lonely yet intentional, a duality that I hoped to capture in the images themselves.
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