This Is Me, This Is You, By Roni Horn

When I initially viewed Roni Horn’s work, This is Me, This is You, I questioned the validity of the art piece. To me, the composition appeared to simply be a collection of pictures portraying a young girl. However, after further research, I realized that it wasn’t exactly the pictures themselves, but the idea behind the pictures that was truly creative. Horn’s work called to me because it reminded me of a film technique called stop motion. In stop motion, the filmmaker will take a picture of their subject, then stop to adjust the frame and take another picture. The end result will be a short video, giving the unmoving pictures of an object the appearance of motion. Horn does something similar in her work, This is Me, This is You. She takes