Response to Kathy O'Dell

It's interesting to recognize the body as a vehicle of representation rather than it being its own physical entity. With this thought a body can represent a whole culture of people or a single person - it is not confined to its own physical limits and can be distorted and transformed through the use of props and different forms of video art. Alienation within society is common among many, so when video recording devices became common to the people they were able to look at themselves in a way they had never seen before. Seeing themselves as a form of representation of the subject being filmed rather than particularly noticing that it was indeed themselves. This separation of the self within this medium is a very interesting thought, and definitely something I had never thought of before. The world of video art is open to anyone these days so the different thoughts of the self, its physical and metaphorical entities are available to the public at anytime - on streaming services such as youtube, Vimeo, and countless others.