Phantom selfie gallery by Gina Dill-Thebeau

Gina Dill-Thebeau has produced a gallery of phantom selfies for Poetry Scores.

A phantom selfie is a picture you take of yourself that is, in some way, ghostly or phantasmagoric and titled with a phrase from Andreas Embirikos' poetic sequence Phantom of the Dreams' Origin, translated from the Greek by Nikos Stabakis.

The images are arranged, as in a Poetry Scores art invitational, based on where in the flow of Embirikos' poem the language chosen for the title of the selfie appears.

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"Phantom of the dreams’ origin"

 

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"Like the waters of a sworn jury her eyes’ calmness was troubled"

 

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"Abolition of subservience"

 

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"Cheeks of half-bared women"

 

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"Dead-calm"

 

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"Seasons change and the woman of our times resembles a wick’s chasm."

 

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"Winter Grapes"

 

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"She was deprived of her toys and her lover."

 

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"Thirteen fortunes"

 

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"Terrible are the momentary facts and our desire goes beyond the hourglasses."

 

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"Nocturnal repose"

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"We are all within our future"

 

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"Sparkling tricks of our future"

 

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All photographs by Gina Dill-Thebeau (after Andreas Embirikos).

Check out our open commission for phantom selfies if you want to play along.

Also, Gina was a source in Nancy Fowler's excellent radio and web feature on Poetry Scores and phantom selfies for St. Louis Public Radio and The Beacon.

 

(Contact us if you want to reach Gina regarding use of an image.)