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This is my self portrait. It doesn't take a genius to recognize how low-energy this picture is. I wanted to come to class with something super cool, I wanted to do strange makeup and weird hair and have funky angles. I wanted my portrait to be captivating. My morale (as it tends to do) during the week dwindled and with it, my inspiration to make anything worth looking at in full. I'm using this as my self portrait as a testament to myself that art doesn't need to require insane visible effort. Sometimes there can be art in the struggle itself. In a way, I still kind of did what I wanted to make. I cut a lot of my hair on a whim before taking this, the angle and lighting is certainly unexpected. This might not be the most energetic self portrait, but it's of me and of my space so that makes it mine. I think I made several subconscious creative choices although they weren’t directly intentional, including the setting, the dynamic of the image, and the mood I was hoping ...
