MICA Competitive Scholarship Portfolio 2019
Sarah Eckstine, BFA Photography '20
Rosemary Burtner
Selections from a photographic series documenting myself representing the symptoms I struggle with as a result of having borderline personality disorder. The photographs are all taken at or in my childhood home, including my family’s farm, where my disorder first showed its face, and where my symptoms first manifested. The project acknowledges my strife with it without demonizing the subject or illness, while still sharing a raw, intimate view of my experiences.
Digital Photographs, 2018
You Cannot Touch Me Here
Following the end of my abusive relationship, many places from my hometown were tainted with memories of the behavior. For a while, I was hesitant to return, but then did with the intention of reclaiming these places for myself in a positive light through photographic means.
Digital Photographs, 2018
'Til The Cows Come Home
Portraits of farmers paired with an aerial image of the land they work or have worked on, reflecting on the age and longevity of agricultural workers.
Digital Photographs, 2018
Crosses Across America
A typology of cross clusters across Maryland and West Virginia, that were erected as part of Bernard Coffindaffer's Roadside Cross Ministry beginning in 1984 starting in Flatwoods, West Virginia. The project has evolved today as Crosses Across America, Inc. with an estimated 2,000 cross clusters built across the United States.
11" x 14" Silver Gelatin Prints, 2018
Your Borderline Girl
This book aims to pull text from the internet, the majority of which has been written by men, as a callout to the harmful way the virality of information on the internet affects the perception of those with borderline personality disorder.
4" x 5" book
