Another Face
As human beings, we reflect ourselves and our beliefs in one another. We compare ourselves to each other in search for love, acceptance, and acknowledgement. Th...
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As human beings, we reflect ourselves and our beliefs in one another. We compare ourselves to each other in search for love, acceptance, and acknowledgement. This makes everyone of us quiet similar and yet very unique, since our personalities have been shaped uniquely depending on our individual experiences with life: Our heritage and cultural norms make up the foundation upon which we are built and our life experiences and relationships to different people continue to shape our personalities by adding bricks to the foundation.
Thus, we can perceive ourselves as individual puzzles consisting of bricks and pieces that form us when all put together: Psychologically our personality consist of different memories and feelings that we have experienced and felt throughout our lives, and we tend to show different faces of our personality depending on the setting, the situation, and the people we are with. Also, in a biological perspective we were conceived by the fusion of a cell from our mother and a cell from our father that both contained billions of pieces of genetic material from each one of our forefathers.
Not only is this an artwork that portrays me as a person with different faces of my personality. It has also been a reason to reflect upon who I am, and in that way continually developing the puzzle of my own personality.
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Thus, we can perceive ourselves as individual puzzles consisting of bricks and pieces that form us when all put together: Psychologically our personality consist of different memories and feelings that we have experienced and felt throughout our lives, and we tend to show different faces of our personality depending on the setting, the situation, and the people we are with. Also, in a biological perspective we were conceived by the fusion of a cell from our mother and a cell from our father that both contained billions of pieces of genetic material from each one of our forefathers.
Not only is this an artwork that portrays me as a person with different faces of my personality. It has also been a reason to reflect upon who I am, and in that way continually developing the puzzle of my own personality.
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Location
The photo was taken outside in a park on Georgia Southern University campus, where I was studying art in the fall semester 2015 and spring semester 2016.Time
The photo was taken a late afternoon around 5 o'clock about an hour before sunset, in order for the light not to be too bright.Lighting
The light in this photo is very warm due to the time of the day the photograph was taken. It is also kind of dim due to the fact that it was taken in the shadow of a tree. This was important so that I would be able to capture a good portrait that wasn't over- or underexposed in some areas of the photograph.Equipment
I used a canon 500D for the shot and a standard zoom lens 18-200 mm.Inspiration
I was experimenting with mirrors making multiple reflections in a series of self portraits and portraits, when the idea of pouring a liquid on to the surface of the mirrors came to my mind. I used milk so that you would be able to see the liquid clearly in the photograph. It was pretty disgusting to pour on my face, but you ought to do anything for art, right?Editing
The only post-process editing I have done is darkening or lightening certain areas of the photograph in order for specific areas to stand out more clearly. The distortions and reflections were created when capturing the photograph with the camera.In my camera bag
My Canon 500D, a standard zoom lens 18-200 mm and and tripod. Moreover I have a "mirror kit" consisting of reflective objects and mirrors that I use in the photographs.Feedback
Make your own "mirror kit" consisting of all sorts of reflective objects and mirrors and start experimenting with the multiple reflections you can make with them to capture on the camera!
