In this collaborative projectwith Sarah Wylie Ammerman, we asked members of the Trampoline Hall Lectures audience to participate in the project by allowing us to take a portait of them. However, instead of simply taking a snapshot of the individuals, we instead decided to look for other ways to take a different kind of self-portrait—one that they created themselves.

At the event attendees were asked to complete a questionaire and then allow us to take a photo of their keys.

This is the questionaire individuals were asked to complete upon arrival.

In providing one word responses to our prompts, the attendees were unknowingly creating a short three word poem, the contents of which would carry a personal meaning to them. We chose to take photographs of their keys because they provided an indirect, but highly personal illustration of these people's lives at that moment. Looking back at this portrait in the future may spark someone to remember a car that they owned in the past or a key to a boyfriend or girlfriends house.

In pairing the poem with their keys, we hoped to reflect for each person a snapshot of themselves at that moment and at the end of the event individuals were able to pick up a portrait using the receipt they were given when they handed in their questionaire.

Below are some sample portraits.