My finished self portrait did not turn out how I originally had planned at all. Before I started, I thought about making myself into an elf or something. I struggled with finding pictures of myself and even when I did find ones that would work with this assignment, they were too small. I take pictures a lot but never of myself and I didn’t want to take a new one. I dug deep into my computer and found several pictures of myself in some of my favorite places and I “hung them up on the wall” in my “1970s living room.” I added one of my favorite pictures of myself, me after my first communion with my first guitar, to the foreground. There is also a picture of me in the TV with shades on from 2009. I like old pictures of myself because the show how much I’ve grown and changed but also how I haven’t. I have always known who I am and who I want to be ever since I was really little. I have always loved art, music, nature, photography, and the 60s and 70s have always been my favorite decades, which is why I chose the vintage looking room for my background.
After I finished working I realized that it looked a bit scrapbook-y, which I’m not about as an artist. I removed the photos of me on the wall and objects on the floor. In this situation, I feel that less is more and the less there is, the more there is to say about my portrait. It forces the viewer to read their own interpretation of it’s meaning.
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