Student 21

(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.

My self portrait is round on the outside symbolizing my wholeness and spiritual side. The texture is yellow and soft meaning that I am a happy, warm, and fuzzy person on the outside. From the circle there are staccato lines to symbolize my energetic personality. At the ends of the staccato lines are squares showing my down to earth side. The middle of the circle is clear because people are able to see inside of me. On the inside are the shapes of circles, staccato lines, horizontal lines, and squares symbolizing my wholeness and spirits, lots of energy and nervouseness as well as worriness, sleepiness and laziness, and my practical down to earth side. The colors on the inside are dark symbolizing my uneasiness and hidden side, but there is bright color showing that not all of me on the inside is dark and gloomy. The outside colors are very bright because that is what I am...most of the time.

(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.

I got the idea of the shapes and lines from :Self Portraits "Who am I" and I got the color theme from Yoruba color aesthetics. I used the shapes circle for wholeness, square for practical/ down to earth, staccato lines for energy,and the horizontal lines for sleepy. I use the bright colors of white and yellow for happiness and warmth and the dark colors for uneasiness.

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

They do let a person use their mind to achieve the same outcome which would be the discovery of who they truely are.

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

They belive that the knowledge of what the self is should be achieved through different ways such as art, prayer, meditation, and self conviction.

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

My self portrait is all about me it is interdisciplinary. There is not right or wrong answer to any questions concerning me. I have formed my own opions about me and thus put them all together to form my self portrait. I did use my mind, though- for innerthought and conviction. I also used the Daoist Theories and the Yoruba color theory.

(question 11) In our unit on the self, is there a right answer to the question of what the self is? If not, what is your reaction to our inability to provide a clear answer one way or the other on this issue?

There is not a clear answer to what the self is. Only an individual knows themself more than anyone else in the world. A person can't tell someone how to think and feel. They can, however, voice their opinion on how they see that person. Some people can't describe their innerself because they think and feel things that are impossible for words to describe it's just a feeling that will never go away or be described.

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