I’ve always wrestled with my identity. With each new hobby or extracurricular, it feels like another version of myself is revealed, and overtime it’s become this discombobulated mess of personalities and expectations that’s overwhelming. I’m not talking about something as prominent as a disorder, as much as I’m referring to the subtle pressures put on an individual to perform a certain way in different spaces. While I regularly get confused about who I am, taking pictures of myself has helped ground me and has fostered a sense of confidence in myself and appearance. It seems silly, but it helps me keep track of events in my life. This self-portrait is based on several selfies where I laid out my mouth, eyes and nose across the artboard. I then made several versions of this pattern and adjusted the colors and shifted positions. This created moments where the facial features fade in and out of clarity.The person I am on the track isn’t the same as the person in the studio who isn’t the same as the person in the classroom who isn’t the same as the person at home, and that’s okay.
Citations Art History’s standard, Chicago 17th Edition. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/
- Smith, Zadie. “Speaking In Tongues” Annotation: This writer speaks about how language has affected her life. She grew up in the country side of UK and when she went to the city for school, she had to make extreme adjustments to her speech in order to fit their standards. It created a double identity and overtime she lost her home voice because she immersed herself in the academic world.
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