Identity Crisis is an interactive installation that consists of a series of four framed heat signature images, each a different version of the same still life and a framed monitor showing a live feed of a thermal infrared camera. This piece explores the feeling of questioning who you are or where you belong. To produce the still photographs, I manipulated the temperatures of the objects to make a thermal infrared camera translate them into different color ranges. The act of manipulation represents the manipulation humans experience, whether self-inflicted or imposed by society, as they develop and present an identity. Using ornate frames and the art historical genre of still life further serves to connect ideas of cultural and societal expectations. The composition of the still life images is loosely inspired by Paul Cézanne’s, Still Life with Plate of Cherries (1883-1887), which is painted in a style that distorts perspective and almost seems to tip the tabletop and its contents forward.