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I asked the sculptor Nancy Lupo if she would allow me to shoot her face as a video but while she was giving me a hair cut. So the camera in my hand was inversely filming her, over my shoulder. The attempt of mine at that time was about how to make a “you” from the other. When the other changes into “you”, it means you have changed from he/she to “you” for him/her as well. Since you are in a confrontation with a live person both of you recognize your self by “you” as well as “I”. This is a situation of equality in which you might not be able to distinguish the two from each other. In this special condition two can really see each other. I was trying to make the same situation of equality between my viewer and myself to make the confrontation possible. What I did was invite her to use me as her material while what she was being used by me for my footage. The other part of the project was changing my profile picture in Facebook with her picture, for a while. 

To present the whole work I printed all frames of the video. It was like the documentation of the video, not itself like the haircut on my head while I was there, as a documentation of her work.