Week 6

Which 3 ideas seem most important to you about your big idea? Why? What directions does your artwork suggest in relation to your concerns?

When I think about identity, I look at it in relation to a few different things.

 
1) At first, I was thinking about the identity of objects and how surroundings effect it.
2) Then, I was thinking about how surroundings effect the identity of people. Would I have been the same person now as I would have been if I was born in a different country/different family/different socioeconomic status? This is not only following in line with the ideas that I was thinking about for the objects, but also in line with what I have been thinking about for my senior thesis. (See above!)
3) I have completely crashed my cart of ideas and jumped off the ship of surroundings and moved onto the identity of emotions. I feel like we turn into different people depending on our emotions and was wondering how to convey that. Or perhaps, I would like to focus on another specific emotion. Lately, I've been thinking very hard about the five stages of grief and what they mean. I tend to process large emotional upheavals by making artwork about them, and the death of my uncle has been sitting low in my belly for a few weeks. How has my identity changed now that his doesn't exist? Or does it? 


Oh my, so many ideas.


I've been thinking with collage, but now instead of just having collages and leaving it at that, I would like to take them a step further. How? I'm not sure yet, but I have kept them in my room to stare at during random points of time. I was thinking about adding found objects to them, or something. Not all of my steps have been explicitly figured out at this point, but I'm okay with that. (I know, surprise!)