ENCOUNTER WITH A SIREN - Based on a mythological concept, this project delves into the inherent and innate human reaction called ‘shame’ and its considerable significance and interest to both visual culture and psychoanalysis. Investigating ‘shame’ has proven to be a promising avenue to explore, inviting us to decipher some of the most troubling and obscure aspects of human subjectivity and its effects on visual culture. The structure of gazes - the gaze of shaming ostracism, the narcissistic gaze, or the inverted gaze that takes the form of the omniscient eye of God; are all venues of interrogation. The use of multilayered photographs also investigates the critical relation to the assumption that a photograph is an indexical cohort with reality. Similar to Renaissance iconography with its optical logic, the photographs hint towards the libidinal forces that are ‘tamed’ in the construction of a new aesthetic ideal, primarily concerned with the somatic limits of experience.