Thursday, June 14, 2007

Triptych Self Portrait

This self portrait was hard...
I thought for a long time trying to find three things, be them historical, mythological, possessions or whatever that described me. Moreover I had a hard time just finding things I thought described me. When I asked other people I just got answers which I thought were missing quite a bit.
What I finally settled on, and am still not too satisfied on, was a series of pics of me on my bike, with my dog and working. Thats when I reread the description of what was required, and noticed that they were to be linked in some form. Not easy.
What I settled on were pics where you could not see my eyes and with sparse uninteresting backgrounds. I did this mostly because the people who may be looking at this are most likely not going to be meeting me face to face and even if they did will likely not know we were i the same class.
Overall i don't think these pics were very inspired and I wish I could think of something better to put in there places.
Title: Me in Three
The first photo is of me with my pup, I tried to show this as my calmest time mostly by taking it in a relaxed position and trying to have a serene look on my face. My pup however was pretty interested in the camera and wouldn't calm down. Oh well.
The second photo is of me on my bike. A big part of my life is my love for the outdoors and of traveling. bike riding lets me do both letting me explore nature and be able to stop at any time to admire it. I didn't want to take an action shot since neither of my other shots were going to be and I didn't think it warranted that big a distinction. Besides, for me, its more calming than exhilarating.
The last photo is of me at work. Very exciting. but it is a big part of what I've been doing for the last few years and still have yet to go. I take my studying seriously something I tried to show with all my books and stuff out and with me buried in it. Pretty much the pose I always have nowadays.
Thematically I put everything in black and white, in boring poses and with little background or flourish since thats pretty much how life is right now.

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