Self portrait

            I close my eyes to think, people only have one chance living in that world, but you have different way to live. How to live is need to think about that. If you choose right way to live you will get happiness, so we need a beautiful heart to protect who we loved. We need a smiling face, to face everyday or whatever the difficult situation, or a good moment. Freedom, give self enough space. The food is support form the object.  Country always is our supporter. Sometimes an idea can helping us a lot, also symbolizes creative. Say goodbye to the old life, and say hi to the new life. The last one is have a correct view for this world.  

  DARKNESS DIES In Immortality’s Light, Darkness dies Infinity’s Smiles, Eternity cries. - Sri Chinmoy  

Half of the world is dark We need diamond to guide us. Because diamond only shining in the dark

Artist statement I know that this picture is not especially shoot for the project but I couldn’t find anything here that presents me as good as this image. I just love horses and that’s why a use the invisible image over the main image. The sea also represents me because I am pretty undefined and I don’t know what I want from life. I love the nature and the beach because it gives me a feeling of freedom. Horse back riding is more than a hobby for me, it is my passion and my love. No matter which mood I am in when I go to my horses I calm down and I am happy again. My two horses are friends for me they understand me without words. In the sand somebody wrote the word love, I also choose the picture because I am full of love for my family and my friends.

            My self-portrait reflects me in my most complex state. There is one picture of me smiling and one picture of me with my eyes closed and looking slightly sad. My facial expressions are used to represent my two most basic but confusing emotions, happy and sad. I am not entirely happy, but I am not always sad either. I have varying emotions that are constantly changing, so the extreme light and very dark shades represent that. I can feel at one moment sad and depressed but then just as soon laugh and smile.

            The trees in the background represent how I grew and am growing throughout life. The trees are visible through my face and body because my past still reflects and helps to create the person I am today. As a tree grows they change and branch out, but they still have a strong base that they stick to. I try to live the same way, change and explore, but remain myself and stick to the core values that I believe in. I also like people to know that I will always be there, like a tree is almost always there, they can count on me.

            For my self-portrait I used photo shop to edit my photo and developed it in the darkroom. I had to change the exposure many times to get the right shade on the photo. 

I was born in New York City and moved to Sag Harbor when I was two years old. My Self-portrait shows me in New York City and also in the woods of Sag Harbor. This represents two sides of me. The side of me that is represented by New York is the vibrant upbeat and enthusiastic side. I love the feeling of New York and the way the energy feels. The woods of Sag Harbor represent a different side of me. The side that loves homes, the side of me who is calm. I resent living in Sag Harbor because what I truly want is to live New York. Even if I do live there, there will always be a part of me who wanders like I still live in the sheltered home I do now.

selfportrait

My self-portrait is basically to show the meaning of my name. My name, Gabrielle means angel and is the reason why i am wearing angel wings.

My self-portrait represents the idea of me in a world where there is so much to learn and so much education to immerse myself in. I believe that humans grow as individuals through education and understanding of new things. We never stop learning even as we grow. The words on the wall are supposed to represent all of the things we can learn. I am standing in a leaning position to show that I am inquisitive to the writing on the wall. I am thinking about each thing that I see, not just recognizing that it is there and moving on. I am an individual in a world full of differences and I am trying to understand and appreciate those differences through knowledge and wisdom.

Self Portrait

Self Portrait, a set on Flickr.

In my self-portrait, the main image is a picture of myself skiing. The Image layered over the top of the image is a picture of my skis in action. This is there to make the photo more visually interesting. I first took both photos with my GoPro camera. Then I imported them both into Photoshop to edit the colors and layer the image. I started with a white background and put the main image on to it. I then made a new layer and put the second photo on top of it. I altered the opacity of the layered image to change its visual qualities. I then cropped out all of the second image except for the image of the actual skis. After id did this I made the image black and white and made everything opposite to what it was. Then I printed the image on a clear sheet of plastic to use it as a negative in the dark room. Once in the darkroom I did a test to see how much exposure the image needed to get a perfect print with good detail. I did this by exposing the image for different period of time until I found a time that worked for the image. Once this was done I used a contact printer to put the negative on top of the paper. I exposed it for the set time and the developed it in chemicals. This photo relates to my personal philosophy because skiing makes me feel free and like I can do anything.

Self Portrait

My self-portrait is a photo of me being an anime character, which means I’m a person who has special power. I was flying in the sky to show my power, it could have two ways to describe it. One is that I want to show others I’m better or stronger than them, but in the other hand it could be I want to protect people that are under me. I would like to say both ways are good, because just like the devil face in the left part of picture, there are always bad people in this world. Maybe people usually think this world should only have good people, but if there are only good people, how do we know they are good? The original picture is this character having the devil mask as one part of him, but he is still a good guy, he is just bad for people who disturb his life. It’s just like me, therefore I put my self into this picture to represent that I could be bad but I’m usually good to everybody. For example, I will like to share my stuff with others, but if somebody just take it away without my permission, I would be bad to him. My cloth is made of black and white, if black stands for evil and white stands for justice, I’m a person who is having both evil and justice. Just like I can be bad and good, this is also one part of myself, I sometimes have some bad ideas, but that doesn’t means I don’t have any good ideas. Many things are always separate to two parts, and there won’t be an absolutely correct part.

Identity is not what I promise others Identity is what I do when I am alone Identity is what I think of others Knowing all the hatred they've shown

My self-portrait is a photo of me sitting in a tree, looking out, with pagan symbols written on my arms. I was sitting in a tree to continue the theme of narcissism and power, me sitting on the tree looking out is made to look like I am above others. It can be viewed in two ways; one, that I am better / more powerful than everyone else or that I am a role model and people look up / aspire to be me. The pagan symbols on my body are meant to symbolize not only my joy for learning about Greek/Pagan mythology but also my enthusiasm for learning. Pagan mythology is an interesting subject because you get to learn about people from a certain time period and how they worshipped gods / a higher being. You learn what they believed as truth and why they performed certain rituals. In the dark room I began with my negative, with the negative I put it in the glass container with the photo paper. I found the correct amount of lighting that it needed by testing it out in increments of five seconds. Once I found a proper amount of light, I exposed my paper to 15 seconds of light and then put the paper into the multiple solutions Once I finished I let the photo dry in the dry room and then waited for it to dry.

Self portrait Franzi

I was creating this image with Photoshop. I took several pictures and then decided for two of them, which I laid over each other and I made them in a black and white contrast so I could produce another self-portrait in the dark room. In the dark room, I put the printed copy of my negative over a white light sensitive paper and dispensed light on it for 10 seconds. As a test, I tried it between 5 and 15 seconds and 10 was the best. Just for fun, I did another test photogram for 13 seconds, but it was too dark so I decided for the 10 seconds photogram.

In my self-portrait I took two pictures of myself, as aforementioned and laid them over each other. In the first picture I cover my eyes with my hands. The second picture is myself screaming and my eyes are open. In this self-portrait I wanted to describe how I feel in the inside. Most of the time I am calm, I am in my mind, meaning I know exactly what I am doing, I dream a lot and I am peacefully rested. But then on the other side, I can be very aggressive, I get annoyed easily, I get bored easily, I need change. Sometimes the frustration with the expectations of society is just too much. Sometimes I can’t stay rested peacefully, some days I break. Sometimes I have to scream, I have to get rid of all of the bad emotions I have to tell the world that I am not fine, that I am sad, that I cannot live anymore. I am trying to hide this side of me with my hands; I am trying to cover who I really am. Only a few people know the true me. But how am I supposed to show my true self when I don’t even know who I am? The sudden shift of frustration and happiness confuses me every time. I don’t know what I want in my life, I don’t know who I can trust, I don’t know where I belong. And this frustration, the silent scream, that I am trying to cover makes me someone I don’t even know yet and I get scared of that person too.

The black and white photogram brought out the seriousness and the twisted personality I have and I described in the paragraph above.

As already aforementioned I took pictures of myself in the darkness and there was one flood light that I was trying to focus directly on my heart, because I am trying to describe my true self, but still lights up my face. It was really hard to focus the light, because we weren’t able to move the light source, so I had to kneel down, which I didn’t plan when I first thought about my project. Overall I am very satisfied with my self-portrait, because it describes my true self and the process was thoughtfully planned and the metaphors fit the photogram.

Self portrait & Artist statement

Artist statement

            My portrait is the picture of me sits on the ground by the white fence. It expresses my philosophy of unknown of the future, and no matter how bad the reality is, there is always hope.

            The night sky on the background represent the future, it has a really dark color to represent the unknown of future. The stars on the night sky are the tiny light that represents the possibilities of future. The fence in front of me is the coward voice deep in my heart that tells me not to be brave and step forward. In the photo, I am staring at the night sky, and trying to figure out what is behind the darkness

Firstly, I asked my roommate to take the picture of me sitting by the fence.  Then I found a picture of the starry night from Internet. After I layered them on each other, I used Photoshop to make it black and white with more contract. Although, I had problem with the negative because it was too light the first time, it turned out to be a really good picture with many contracts.

I believe high school is the time period that we find our future direction, and what to do as a job later in life as well. So we should try all different things in order to find what we most like. Art as a important part of my life, I really want to achieve something about art in the future, however, after seeing so many talented people, I do feel hesitated about continue doing art or not. As we all know, it’s really hard to make a living doing art if nobody appreciates your work. When parents are questioning about my dream, when people sneer at my dream about future, I will just forget about that, and hold on to what I believes. If I cannot take away the darkness, I will light it up by bringing more possibilities to it.