Student 10

question 5) In your own words, describe your self-portrait and the style of art it represents. Please try to explain your use of line, shape, color and texture and what is conveys to you.

The top of my box has a very busy fabric on it, because I am a very busy, complicated person. It also has a spiral symbolizing my life, where I am growing and changing. The spiral is in a diagonal line to represent my dramatic personality. The line is done in yellow because in the Yoruba colors, yellow symbolizes the "pupa" personality. I am a easily angered person, and I have a very hot personality. The outside of my box is done in black because people can never tell what I am thinking or feeling. When you open my box, you see a bright, happy fabric, the way I feel inside. THe material has stars, clouds, and suns on it which symbolizes my goals, I always want to reach for the stars.

On the inside I have horizontal lines, which shows the restlessness of my personality. I am always busy, never still. The lines are also done in yellow, once again representing the "pupa" personality. In one corner, I have just one ball away from everything else, alone, which re! presents my independence. I have cotton circles in my box. The cotton represents my warm heart inside. The circles show the importance of spirituality in my life. I have crosses in my box representing the changes taking place. But, they are all jumbled together, showing my confusion about the changes. I put fireballs in box to show my hot personality. I also put mirrors in my box because I tend to reflect the way others treat me to them. However they act toward me, I reflect back to them.

(question 6)Please explain how you used ideas from the resources on the self we studied. Did you consciously use ideas from or react to any of the following resources in your self-portrait: the psychological theories of self? The Rilke discussion of "faces," "hands," or "costumes"? The Asian views of the self? The examples from art of non-representational self-portraits? Please clearly explain what ideas from these sources you integrated into your self-portrait and why.

Yes, I used the different shapes to represent my life. For example, the spiral and the circles. I used the Yoruba Color Aesthetics, when I used the color in my box.

(question 7) In what ways do these different disciplinary resources agree with one another on the question of what is the self?

They all agree with one another because they are all used in describing oneself. Each of the disciplines in one way or another use different forms of explaining personalities.

(question 8) In what ways do they conflict with each other on the question of what is the self?

They use different ways to describe the doffernt personalities. Like Yoruba uses color, while others use shapes.

(question 9) Does your self-portrait try to reconcile these ideas or did you choose a particular postion to convey? Why?

I used a little bit of each of the different methods, and brought them all together in my box. This way I could show my diversity.

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