I was not sure how to go about “taking” my selfies with words so it took my a while to figure out what I wanted to capture. I started out with my mood and then my physical appearance. Towards the third selfie it felt a little repetitive with the way I described my hair, which is always tangled, and I struggled to come up with another mood that didnt feel forced.
My intentions for each piece were to document myself at each given mood and moment. In my first snapshot I went into more detail about my background so that the reader/audience could more clearly see what I am supposed to look like. I then continued on with my other snapshots, assuming my audience was taking knowledge from my first snapshot. My snapshots are supposed to be read as a series with the audience taking pieces of me from each piece to help them interpret the next.
As for cropping, in my first snapshot I left the frame fairly wide so that i could descibe my background and family. I wanted the audience to get a general idea of who I am and where i came from. As the snapshots progressed I narrowed the frame closer and closer to “crop” my selfie.
It was very difficult to decide on a format and deter myself from using first person. I had to look “at” myself from an outsiders perspective and not through the normal lense I see myself. Not only was unusual to observe myself from this outsiders perspective, I felt like I was outside of myself. In order to get this outsider’s perspective I had to disassociate from my body. When I wrote these snapshots, I wrote about “Dita” and not “me”. It was very unusual and hard to describe but it challenged me to write creatively and reflect on how I present myself vs who I actually am.
