Jacob Sirokman
Introversion
Reaching
Misc Work
Mapping Myself Around Our Room (2024) incorporates photography and electronic music production, using digital approaches to explore my memory and home. In these self portraits, I use self representation and electronic music as a vehicle through which my memory and reflections can be expressed. I capture myself in places around my hometown of Portland, OR, interacting with my own relationship to the place I’ve lived in my whole life. I photograph myself both in places I know intimately in a physical sense: my home, my room, as well as places I know intimately from a distance: places I’ve driven by countless times or digital spaces that I occupy. I combine my candid approach to photography with more intentional poses and compositions to investigate these ideas. Additionally, the range of different digital cameras similarly lends itself to this investigation. I use DSLR and lo-fi cameras in handheld gaming consoles to directly engage with the ways I’ve encountered images throughout my life. My relationship to image-making began before I picked up modern, higher-definition cameras, so I investigate the relationships between different types of cameras I’ve encountered in my life. By placing myself in these pockets of context, I am able to analyze and reflect on my own interaction with them. In the middle of this series is navigation, using digital processes in photography and music to examine the ways in which I navigate the various contexts relating to home I’ve encountered in my life.