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Through the Looking Glass with @patricialaydorsey

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Patricia Lay-Dorsey (@patricialaydorsey) is masterful at finding new ways to see herself. In old photographs, in hand held mirrors, in soft focus or sharp, in straight ahead poses for her camera and obscured reflections, she is willing to study her gaze and her body in them all. “I was a storyteller back when I was into performance art, and I guess now I’m a storyteller with a camera,” she says. “And the story that is easiest for me to tell is my own.”

As an avid documentarian of her own life, Patricia, who is 73, pays close visual attention to living with multiple sclerosis, a disease of the nervous system that significantly impairs her use of her hands and legs. For years her photography centered on self-portraiture and her relationship with her disability. In joining Instagram, Patricia moved into a new phase of picturing herself and her life in Detroit with her husband Eddie, whom she calls her Instagram muse. “Nowadays I wake up every morning wondering what pictures I will take that day and how the story will unfold,” she says. “I feel like a child again, that little girl who let her imagination and sense of play lead her into magical realms.”

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