My work intends to show the world I live in that is filled with the self. I am in a room full of myself or my reflections in the mirror, yet I still have my phone camera out as seen in the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was inspired by the Met studies I did, especially the Self-Portrait with a Model by Iba Ndiaye. The portrait is almost monotone with muted green and blue, evoking the feeling of sadness and blurriness. Thus, for my self portrait, the color blue is the main part of my palette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of my references, the greek mythology, Narcissus is known for falling in love with his self in river reflection. As one of the tellings of the story says, as Narcissus was reaching for the reflection, he fell into the river and drowned to death. In the end, his self obsession led to his self extinguishing. He saw the river as himself and even thought Echo\u2019s cries was him echoing back to himself when he should be seeing the river and hearing Echo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oftentimes, I, too, seem to be obsessed with the self excessively. When I fill the world the self, it causes me to miss the world as it is. I forget to enjoy life and give too much attention to my appearance, checking my face on every little reflection on glass, window, and mirror to make sure I look \u2018fine\u2019. But, I might just end up very much like Narcissus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19618,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-19616","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integrative-studio-seminar-1","tag-shift"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n