Throughout my high school years, I had always been wondering what I would have done as an adult, as that is the question everyone asks you not long after they have met you. Everyone around me was directed towards the United Kingdom to study economics, or business management. The way society has a major impact on our daily routines and decisions, my surroundings terribly influenced me, and I was following the common and easier path, towards economics, finance, and business. Despite I constantly felt lost, disoriented, and misplaced, I kept moving towards the same direction, until one day I looked at myself in the mirror; Who am I? And who do I really want to be? Not long after that, I firmly decided to be an artist. What I’ve always loved is categorized as art, and my passion is not being an economist or a business manager, but an artist, and this is what has led me to Paris, the city of love, but most importantly, of art.
From this thought and idea stemmed my second map of my very first project, Who Am I?. By looking at myself in the mirror I traced my facial features with a permanent black marker, in avery graphic and simple manner, as I believe it is not the artwork but the theory behind it that is truly important, as Conceptual artists speculate. In my final project, I included words all around my self-portrait: on the left are the words that represent my experience in Rome in the last couple of months I was there, and on the right my experience in Paris in the last month and a half. The words defining my stay in Rome all revolve around feelings of solitude, difficulties, and destabilization, whilst the ones on the right encompass feelings of pleasure, serenity, and confidence.
I believe mirrors are important mediums of communication, and I would like for the observers of this piece of work to look at the one I’m exhibiting and find themselves within it.
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