Midterm Project

The big idea I decided to go with is identity however; I chose a very particular side in this extremely general word.  I focused on the fact of remaining the same (or different) under varying conditions. I wanted to explore how people define themselves in a heavily influential world. Everybody is influenced in so many ways, pulled from so many directions, and influenced greatly by race, religion, and geography. I am going to explore how people grow into themselves through these filters. Throughout this exploration process, I realized these filters influence us greatly. To explore this big idea, I set up two very different places. One seems to be dreamlike and enchanted if you will, while the other is dark, gloomy, and grungy. These scenarios are one way I could represent the filters I just discussed. Visually, I used an apple to demonstrate the differences between people in both pictures. In the pretty scene, there is a rotten apple following from the sky where everything else in the picture seemed to have flourished. Also, I used a girl that seems to be in a very sad position while she fades away into smoke. These two objects could not grow despite everything they were given. In the next image, the scene is terrible, with a corpse and stormy sky as well as a grungy texture over it all. Here, I have a very bright apple falling from the sky that seems to be completely healthy. It also has a face signaling that this apple (person) came to be who they really are even if they had to grow from concrete. This apple had an identity; a sense of being even though the background gave it no reason to live. Also, I have a couple flowers growing next to a skeleton. This signifies much of the same thing. This big idea is very important to me in several ways. First, I want to grow to be more thankful everyday for what I have. Over the last few months I have realized a lot about life and just how lucky I really am to have the opportunities I do. If we all just started taking a step back and looking at the good in people or life instead of the bad, the way we define ourselves would alter completely. We all would continue to get stronger despite any problems we may face just like the green apple.