Tag: self-portrait

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait — A Map of Rory (Part 2)

   My Relationships to My Relationships (In final draft stages of Part 2) In my second draft, I changed many aspects of my original “self-portrait”; after my meeting with Angela, I came to terms with the fact that my original…

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — The Map of Heartbreaks

(first draft above, second below) the map of heartbreaks is a simple map in a spiral shape – in fact, it’s based on an actual floor plan of a real institution that was only slightly warped to fit the shape. the map…

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — Continuities Between Place & Emotion

For this map, I wanted to start with concrete places I felt were important to me and work out a way of assembling them in a way representative of myself and my experiences. By and large I think one of…

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — A Map of My Future, Age 23~25

Final Map: Sketch: My decision making process is actually pretty simple. My initial idea was to simple mapping out my thoughts and images in my head. The reason I want to achieve a map totally out of my head is…

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — A Map of Mapping My Creative Process

Work Narrative: When I initially sat down at my desk to sketch my self portrait map I was immediately distracted by the web of unfinished art and bundles of treasured material that litter my desk. As I (thought that) I…

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait — A Map of the Most Meaningful Music of My Life

This piece began with the idea that I could map the experience I have while I listen to music. I began by writing down all of the thoughts/feelings/pictures which came to mind during various listening sessions, or other moments where I…

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — A Map of Places I Might have Left a Lot of Hair (Not Including Bathrooms and Barbershops)

Preliminary photo and painting (sketches): Sign system: Connection system: surface: The artists and works that influenced me the most were: Josh Dorman’s 2008 piece, “Four Fleurs”, Liza Phillips works “Inlet” and “Flood plain”, both from 2003 and, Mariele Neudeckers’s 1998…

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — A Map of Memory

For my self-portrait, I decided to map my travel routine during high school in Bangalore, India. At this stage, my map is still very incomplete and needs to be reformatted. At first I was confused about what to map. My…

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait Draft #1— Map of Personal Vision of Intentions and Outcomes

To map oneself, there must be a certain level of understanding, that there will be an infinite level of subtraction, from ones complex reality of self, the scale or magnitude of the map is completely fabricated. In the creation of…

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait — A Map of Personal Location

My self-portrait is a representation of the division between the places in which I have experienced increased growth, without taking into account the amount of time spent living at each location, as time or longevity is irrelevant in regards to…

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait — Notated Sound on Autopography

   1. Earlier Map with sign system. 2. Detail of notation undergoing transformation into a topography Detail – Inaudible/External – Notated/Domestic – Noise/Uninhabitable Audio: Removed. Sheet music is a form of clear instruction – or so it is often presented….

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait — A Map of Movement

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Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — A Map of the Self (A One Hour Portrait)

The first question that puzzled me while considering what to create for this self-portrait map was that of timeliness and timelessness- at what point does a map, or data, or the truth fail to represent the moment? In order to…

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait Draft #1 — A Map of My Senses

    Before conceptualizing my map, I found myself visualizing it in a very abstract way. I was seeing colors and shapes way before I could actually make sense of them. Rather than a traditional birds-eye, navigational map, I wanted to…

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — Map of Lucas’s Online Self

For my self-portrait map, I wanted to make something that in some way addressed Katie Holland Lewis’ Tangled Pathways, in which Lewis documented physical sensations on an abstract grid that represented specific parts of her body. I was drawn to…

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — Mariko’s Map

  My self portrait is inspired by a family property in the mountains of Northern California where I spent much of my childhood (pictured above). Many important events in my life are associated with this place and I have mapped…

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait — A Map of Identity and Self-Identity

Considering the task of this first project was creating a self portrait, I found the easiest place to start was an image of myself. I originally began with a photo of my arm, which would reach towards a landscape. Connections…

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait — A Map of Rebecca

I experienced a lot of difficulty when posed with the task of creating a map that represents both myself and something invisible. Part of this challenge stems from the fact that my background in visual arts is sparse: my most…

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait — A Map of Rory Grene

I really enjoyed getting a chance to do the self portrait project- it was so much fun getting to learn to use photo shop (something I never expected!!) and getting to do a project on which I had so much…

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait — A Map of 51°34’N and 1°47’W, 25/05/19, 21:01PM

I have a talent for spinning yarns so believable even I forget what’s real, so when I engage in introspection I like to have tools, guidelines, a map. It’s safer; I’m less likely to commit self-idolatry or self-flagellation if I…