Let’s start a Sacred Selfies revolution, mirroring ALL our magic within!
In this playful online adventure, you will enter into a dynamic dialogue with the multilayered aspects of yourself and the world around you, flipping the script of this disrespected art form to explore the power of healthie selfies. The course explores the many levels of identity construct, and offers examples of other brave and beautiful humans exploring who they truly are beyond the social constructs placed upon them.
Selfies have gotten a bad rap, seen as the poster child for an externalized search for validation. But what if selfies were actually a gateway to the self-love we all crave, we just need to come at them with a different intention? What if we allowed our cameras to become co-creative playmates, reflecting back the beloved within? And when we expand our perceptions of ourselves, the world around us shifts to meet those new visions, liberating greater connections, passions, and potentials.
What: An online multimedia exploration into the deep power and play available through photographic self-portraiture as a way to explore the many faces of your identity. Scroll down to see the course outline. NOTE: some of the course content has nudity in the inspiring examples because some of the artists are exploring that as part of their work.
When: This is a self-paced, online drip course that you can join at anytime.
Who: Any and everyone who yearns to meet the diverse, delicious aspects of your multilayered self through a dialogue with your camera’s enchanted eye. This course is an embodied romp into innovative and experimental mediums, with your body as the main model. Come all ye brave and curious ones for a rockin’ good time. Let the wild rumpus start!
How: For just $159 you will have unlimited access to the one-of-a-kind course
As the Oracle of Delphi wisely offered,
the essential quest is to “Know Thyselfie.”
About the Course
This twelve lesson, self-paced online journey will guide you through delightful, irreverent, and fascinating practices designed to reclaim the transformative power of self-portraiture. This will be a full-body, all in, analog and digital process. Get ready to see yourself in surprising, fresh, and revolutionary ways.
Some of the selfies exercises will include mixed-media escapades with your images, taking your embodied photography adventures to whole new levels. You will also learn three of my favorite apps for easily crafting compelling digital images. And there will also be inspiring artists who have taken photographic self-portraiture to whole new levels shared throughout the process to guide your own wild experimentation (see some of these self-portrait montages here-both anonymous and well-known selfie devotees with some of my life-long experimentations with the process).
Witnessing Tribe
Although the course is self-directed, I would suggest using the hashtag #sacredselfies to share your emerging odysseys into the world of healthie selfies (professor Charisse L’Pree gets credit for this term from her TED Talk). She offers an essential human need is to be seen, cherished, and appreciated for our unique essence (think the Goo Goo Doll’s song Iris: “I just want you to know who I am.”).
Through posting your evolving sense of selfie-self, you witness who you truly are in these turbulent and dynamic times. The course is a container revealing your emerging creative voices and visions. Selfies are an intimate, tender way to delve into the many personas and potentials hidden within your multidimensional spirit. When your own creative joy and confidence shines, it encourages the rest of us to unleash our own radiance, and this Radiance Revolution will change the world. You do not have to post them, they may be your own cherished journey, but by posting them publically it may offer you the power of being witnessed by other brave, curious, and kind souls claiming their own cocky fresh magic however that manifests.
You will not see another course like this, mixing innovative, playful image-making jaunts with cutting-edge multimedia projects for honing your creative confidence and capabilities. All of Mellissae Lucia’s courses are unrivaled in their experimental joy.
Course Outline
Dynamic Dialogue—Permission to Play
- Elemental Ecstasy—Barefoot Boogie
- Muse Messages—Found Objects
- Surrealist Sonnets—Picture Poetics
- Secret Squirrel—Sneaky Selfies & Awkward Usies
Diverse Dopeness—Permission to Preen
- Many Me Mixtape—Morphing Montages
- Sacredly Adorned—Your Own #SignatureLook
- Awesome Uglies—Silly Sanctification
- Beauty Bias—Erotic Ownership
Digitoral Democracy—Permission to Provoke
- Altered Identity Altars—Selfie Scribed Stories
- Deliciously Disposable—Decomposing Images
- Holographic Transparencies—Multilayered Reflections
- Selfie Social Artist—New Myth Makers
Supplies Needed
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Image taking devices:
- Mobile phones (iPhone or Android).
- Tablets, iPads, and iPods.
- Disposable, Brownie, and underwater cameras.
- Plastic Holgas or other Lomography analog gems.
- Holy Polaroids and handmade pinhole cameras.
- Photo Booth machines (old school film preferred).
- Swanky Rolleiflex, Leicas, DSLRs, and large format cameras—anything that you can capture images of yourself with.
- Some way to print out the photos you take. Either with your own color printer or outsourcing it.
- Basic art supplies along with clear transparencies if you choose. You can decide when those practices come up, but I would say some permanent markers, paints, and collage materials. We will be messing around, so other than the transparencies, which I found a package of fifty 8.5×10’s at about $15 on Amazon, you will use what you have.
- The ability to navigate the workflow of your devices. If you want to play with the suggested apps for both Apple and Androids devices, you will need to know how to download the applications and then also how to move photos between applications to alter them. The apps cost about $4-5.
There are no refunds on payments for classes and class materials, but you may transfer to future classes for comparable payments if your schedule necessitates.
Your Guide
Lucia is a Sunny Surrealist artist and adventurer who has been exploring self-portraiture since she was a child through classic Photo Booths and early punk rock Polaroids. Fifteen years ago she undertook a seven-year vision quest after the death of her husband into subterranean graffiti tunnels and hidden canyons and caves in New Mexico, creating over 70,000 Sacred Selfies images in her Painted Body and Earthenbody ritualistic photography series.
Those Painted Body images now grace her award-winning Oracle of Initiation divination deck, and she currently offers Painted Body wild feminine initiations in her beloved Abiquiu, NM. She also teaches experimental digital photography courses both online and at The Palm Springs Art Museum and The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego’s Balboa Park. She is currently offering the Deep Play Divination 2020 (the full course sold out in three weeks this year, and the 2021 course will launch in September 2020) online course to claim the only true power you have, trust in your creative instincts. https://www.instagram.com/mellissaelucia/ www.Mellissaelucia.com 
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