midterm

• What is the subject of your image?

I am the subject of my image. I used a clay mini sculpture to depict myself and how I believe the inside of my mind looks during a particular moment in my life. 

• What is the content of your image?

In the image there is a cardboard shoe box, a sculpture, acrylic paint, tape, and glitter glue *as rain*.

• Why did you make the choices that led to the composition?

The choices that led me here were made up by closely observing the things around me -- as well as winging it. Which is a lot like how I live my life. For example, the head being detached was not something I originally wanted. But I left the head off because it was too heavy for the sculpture. After much reflection, I felt thing was so fitting for me and i left it. I literally lose my mind about once a week, and I felt like that was a funny way to show that. The colors chosen were colors I came up with when I was asked what color I was feeling as a form of therapy. They all represent a mood or feeling. 

• What do you think this image conveys to the viewers?

To the viewers i feel like it would take a lot more explaining than i would like for them to understand but that’s ok. I feel like a lot of it could be open to interpretation, because that’s how people are anyways. I feel like this project is exactly me. People want to inquire about it, and don't understand it, until explanation- then it all makes sense. I hope this piece conveys confusion, nostalgia, youth in a sense of amateurism. I also just hope it makes people think and reflect about their feelings and the way they can associate something to that emotion, like a color maybe. 

• What artists have influenced your self portrait?

Basquiat influences me in the sense that he just had so much going on in the background and in his mind when he did create his art, that often times it did need explaining. I liked the way he used little patches of color to express certain thoughts or emotions. I tried to do the same thing as well. 

• What techniques have you used to create your self portrait?

I used molding- with molding clay. 

Drawing and sculpting. 

painting

• Why and how does this project represent you?

Every single thing in this project means something about me. 

Sculpture- me

Tape- me trying to hold my life together

Rain - weather that reps emotions- how I feel mentally sometimes

colors - Rainbow - emotions. (scared, calm, happy, boundaries, thoughtful, lighthearted) 

Shoebox- a (my) bruised mind 

Stand- represents finding ways to make it work.