SELF PORTRAIT PROJECT COLLAGE

 

inspirational portrait

Self appreciation

An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’:

·         The Spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

·         The media interprets (and reduces) the world for us with the use of simple narratives.

·         “The Spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than ‘that which appears is good, that which is good appears,’”

·         Gradually, we begin to conflate visibility with value. If something is being talked about and seen, we assume that it must be important in some way.

Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met:

·         “remembers as a little girl having to take a secret oath to promise never to be a traitor. There was killing, there was cruelty, and there were foreigners telling your elders what to do, ” Ms. Mutu continues.

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey

·         Mutu encourages audiences to consider these mythical worlds as places for cultural, psychological, and socio-political exploration and transformation.

 

 

I give my collage the title of “Self-appreciation”. I used paper collage to collect the background. Andy Warhol and Kehinde Wiley were my inspirational in my project. Looking at their portraits I felt like, they are trying to highlight the personality more than the look, the only thing that really matters is your identity. No one is supposed to be ashamed of who they are.

I made the background in color referring to how life can get busy, and we do not know which direction we should follow. On the other hand, I changed my picture to black and white as a way to express that I should never loose my identity and always define myself even in the middle of the darkest days.

Work cited:

•          Purje, Tiernan Morgan & Lauren. “An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's 'The Society of the Spectacle'.” Hyperallergic, 14 May 2017, hyperallergic.com/313435/an-illustrated-guide-to-guy-debords-the-society-of-the-spectacle/.

·         Princenthal, Nancy. “Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 5 Sept. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/arts/design/wangechi-mutu-metropolitan-museum.html.

·         “Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey.” Brooklyn Museum: Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/wangechi_mutu/.