All people are
different; they have their own priorities, interests, personal qualities and
secrets. But society usually accepts only one model of behavior that makes
everyone similar to each other. No one wants to be a misfit, so people try to
measure up to society. People wear masks instead of showing their real and
unique faces and qualities. This idea came to my mind because it is a current
problem for me too. I can be open only with really close people, but I cannot
allow strangers or new people to get know my true face. That is why I am
wearing mask of calm and quiet girl –because this character doesn’t cause a lot
of people’s curiosity and interest.
The idea of my
self-portrait is to depict myself in upset and lost mood. My hands are crossed
in a strange way, it symbolizes that I am closed and scared; and I hold my head
like I am lost and don’t know what to do. I wrote a lot of adjectives that
represent me on my body. I wrote that I am cheerful, kind, talented, fragile,
smart, funny, positive, and active – that is how I see and describe myself. To
create this image I used Photoshop. I put a picture of the prison cell on the
top of my photo to show that all of these qualities are closed in me. No one
can see them like they are in prison, like I am in prison. I made my photo
brighter and added more opacity, but I made the picture of bars almost
transparent. Then I used black and white effect to give self-portrait its mood.
I just played with different types of effects, made a picture brighter, added
more contrast, but then I made it darker. Next I inverted my picture and
printed it out. Then I developed it in a dark room.
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