SELF-PORTRAID PICTURE

ARTIST STATEMENT

The picture should explain how I feel. I look into a mirror, so you can see the two sides of my face. A mirror can reflect many things. For me it was important that you could see me twice from different perspectives. The special thing in this picture is that the half of my head in the mirror is erased. You can only see the shape of my face. In this case my head should represent my personality and who I am. So with this picture I wanted to show that people often see only one half of my face, which means they only know one way how I am. I have to add that the picture should not only reflect what other people think about me. It should show that even I do not always know myself. The text “I am ?” should show that I no not much about me. I am searching for my second half. Of course I have a standing basis, showed by my normal half of my face, but there are always things I do not know bout me. What I want to be, what is an ideal for me, how can I find what person I am? Sometimes it seems to me that I am only one person under thousand people. Without a face, nobody would recognize me because I am not special. Maybe I am and I do not know it yet. Only a few people know what I really think. Often I identify myself having an opinion only because this opinion is the opinion of the mass but in truth it is not my opinion. . I want to change something but nobody knows what I really am and even I am frightened about if I would be a cool person if I would be like I am. I think for my future it will be very important to know who I am. Because in your life you have to make decisions and if you make the wrong one only because you are afraid of people would not like your own opinions and decisions you will be unlucky in your life. Now we are young and we can try who we are and who we want to be. But later we have to make serious decisions like a marriage, your job and how much you care about people. My goal will be to know exactly who I am, because if you know this I think you will have a balanced life.

TRAIL AND ERRORS:

I learned a lot from this project. It was very interesting for me thinking about ho could I express my thoughts in a picture. With this assignment I started thinking about myself and what I want from life. It was difficult for me to work with photoshop but it also was fun for me to experience it.