Self Portrait

Artists’ thesis statement

            My collage is pretty simple; I did not put too many pictures on it, but I did arrange those pictures well. In the center, it is the main point I want to indicate, a cursive road, which I want to say the life is just like the road, we should better consider it as a trip (“life is beautiful” on collage), which should includes “Fighting, love and relaxation”.  Troubles are just like the view outside the road, enjoy having adventures in them.  The beginning, I put “We Are Young”, because I think teenager is the starting point of fighting for life, so I put things like “Careers”, “Life is a Struggle, love, tragedy”, “dream job”, money, spider and people at bottom.  Careers, dream job money might be a dream of teenagers’; also, because we are not mature enough, when we face trouble which I put as spider, we will think life is a struggle, and we might have girlfriend and think life is all about love. People are the friends we have during the life.  Then when we are in the middle age, become more brave and mature, we would take life as an adventure when we face trouble (eyes in hands, means others are laughing at you, try to scare or fight you), as a promise if we meet whom we love.  On the top, those are what I think the most important, family, peace and calm mind and friends.  And the backgrounds, words and music are the habits that should be with you for an entire life.