Brianna Ivey-Weekly Post

Shoccara Marcus

 1. After being away from her family for ten years, Shoccara Marcus moved back home after finding about her father's cancer diagnosis.  In Marcus series "Choreographing My Past", she goes back into the past of being a child again. Shoccara Marcus goes into different places in the house and poses in different ways and in some of the photos her family was present.  She uses both natural light and artificial light to help her make her pictures. Even though she is the main focus in her photographs, she did not do any portrait shoots nor did she face the camera. Shoccara Marcus put her camera on a  tripod to make her pictures.

2. Being away from her family for so long, she feels invisible and also the tension that goes with being away from family for such a long time. She attempts to freeze time while during her dance moves. Even though everyone is doing their normal routine as if nothing changed. Shoccara Marcus felt pressured into going back to the mindset into her younger self. She believed that dance was a way to escape from the separation that she felt from her family. While trying to find a place within her family.  She felt emotional struggles and wanted to abandon her project.  However, these experience helped her resolved the difficulties she had with her family.

3. I don't know what happened with Shoccara Marcus and her family to make them be separated for ten years.  Maybe she wanted to dance professionally and her family disapproved as many families do when they find out their children want to become artist. Maybe it was something very emotional and/or physical, I don't know but I am happy to see them reconcile their relationship.  I would have thought that since Shoccara went back home because of her ailing father that she would make a series about that. However,  she took a different approach and made her home coming more about her and how distance disrupt relationships and how scary,  lonely and hard it is to mend those relationships.