Category Studio Project: Identity Reconfigured
Meat Girl is representative of feeling “wrong” within yourself down to the core of your being, sometimes to the point of sticking chunks of meat to your muscles. Feeling “wrong” could be feeling off in your mind or body, but it can also mean a deep disconnect with the self. We all feel “wrong” from time to time but for some that feeling becomes muscle deep, being hammered in by unrealistic beauty standards and constantly changing societal expectations.
Picture is of me around the time of the 2020 election, aka still during the pandemic. I was at a different college in a different state and was missing my family, but at the same time being where I was,… Continue Reading →
Since starting college, I’ve been feeling pulled in a lot of different directions, academically and with my own identity, and I carry mixed emotions about the unknown and the future ahead of me.
Within this work I capture the contents of my wallet and my key ring. I have excluded anything with my name on it except for the card in the center. I think that what a person carries with them on… Continue Reading →
This piece is aimed towards the matter that both men and women are expected to hide their emotions and thus leads them to suffer in silence. While appearing happy in the outside, one can be going through hell and back on the inside. When someone finally lets some sort of emotion come through they are seen as too emotional or dramatic.
this is a portrait I made of myself inspired by who I was during the pandemic. I watched a lot of adventure time and Rick and Morty, spent a lot of time sketching during class and taking inspo from Instagram… Continue Reading →
this piece is about how i see myself through the world and community i surround myself with. the focus of this self-portrait isn’t all on myself because of how much i associate my friends and home with who i am. i am more than just my physical sense, i am the music and the colors and the nature and life i surround myself with. pen and paper for simplicity and to capture minor details and folds.
The subjects in the images used to create this were crafted over 6 years apart but relate to each other in similar themes of self-consciousness, confusion, and an overactive mind with a need for tangibility to process anything. I cannot… Continue Reading →