ENVIROMENTAL PORTRAIT

sam I am

Sam I am

My project is showing the unraveling of Sam , I chose to present it in a suit case because when I asked Sam what his ideal room would be he said he doesn’t see him self having one.

Also I liked the idea of presenting in suitcase as it reminded me of this music box I had one I was younger. And I wanted to incorporate this childlike aspect of Sam into my project.

On the outside of the suitcase I wrote something’s I learnt about Sam. I wrote them almost like a riddle.
And when you open it up its revealing Sam, through his environment, the feather over the jars represent the order in the disorder. I chose feathers as they remind me the most of Sam gentle and fragile.

Beneath the feathers are the order, I place many things in jars in a ordered way. In each jar is something that resembles Sam so as you look through the suitcase you begin to get to know him. Through his environment and things/ habits.

The video shows someone shining shoes as this is something Sam enjoys doing and I found it a very interesting hobby of his, then the clip also shows a hospital , because when I asked Sam about the lighting in his room he told me he would like white light .

He said he wished the light was a white light. He said it the only thing stopping his room from feeling like a hospital to which he said he loves hospitals. He then talked about how if the light where to be a white light he would feel that he would be at a institution , clinic where going to school would be his manual labor. He loves hospitals for the fact he feels like he is being taken care of in them.

I tried to depict this through the imagery in the video.

I chose the lullaby song from a music box, because the suitcase is in a way a music box when opening it revealing , Sam.

The last clip in the video is the scene from American phsyco showing him peeling of this face mask this Is something Sam did for six months then stopped. But now he has a different facial routine, I found this interesting about him and I wanted to depict it in the video.

The backdrop for the video is a collage of imagery all relating to Sam.

Overall my environmental portrait depicts Sam from my eyes. Merging both his environment and his personality characteristics and habits in to one.

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