Self Portrait's Statement

"The Inner ME..."

Self portraits are either very simple or very complicated. Most traditional self portrait concentrates on the face, where a simple smile is displayed. However for my self portrait assignment in this class I choose to interpret myself through myself without displaying my face in any of my prints. I’m going to capture the inner me through my body language and old poetry I have written a while back. Each photograph will represent a single poem. The poem itself will play the memoir of each different photo or the other way around. It depends how the viewer chooses to view my work.

They way I plan to achieve this goal is through using transparencies that I have purchased and created in Photoshop on my own. These transparencies will contain the individual poems and a consisting display of calligraphically border.

I would like to speak a little of my choice of poetry fro this particular assignment. I choose these specific poems because they reflect on the me I keep hidden from the world around me. Anyone can tell I been through a tragedy, but what people don’t see is that my burns are nothing to me. I have came to accept what my God had brought upon me. However, a girl’s loss of her mother at young age is the real tragedy, at least in my heart that’s what I feel. Although I choose poems that display me as a lonely, depressed, and filled with sorrow person I still ended my intentional series with poem about faith. This poem is written in a way to encourage others or reminds others of the importance of faith, yet it still reflects on the person who wrote it, me, as someone who came through their hardships by holding tightly to this intangible belief called FAITH.

I believe I succeeded in achieving my goal for this project. Although I hate to do self portrait projects, I can honestly say I have enjoyed working on this project.