Self Portrait

Lo-Fi Self Portrait

I am still unsure who I am at this moment in time, its a working progress. However I am painfully aware of the person I was. Identity in high school was a struggle, (everything in high school was a struggle) but if I didn’t suffer through the weird emo phase of year nine I don’t think I’d be who I am today. Through my self portrait I’ve tried to not only capture how grossly sentimental I am but who I used to be and how I used to feel

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I was lucky enough to have a very willing friend to pose as me in a few of my media pieces, because of that
I was able to capture a few shots showing things like body language and posture of teenage me.
The station I took the photo at was close to my first real crushes house, I was shy as anything which I tried to capture in the photo.

Travel was also super important to me as a teenager, I found myself always on a tram or walking somewhere. It’s weird for me to compare the places I use to frequent as a teenager to now. Also note my partner who I was filming during the tram route I used to take to school, purposely inserts himself into the frame then asks am I in it at the end, which felt very high school media project.

 


These recordings were mostly just what I used to talk about on tram rides home or the type of notes that were passed. I think they captured just a lot of conversation really used to really start as guess what happened to me today.

5 astrological beans @StarrySailor  ·  Mar 1
I can’t believe I have to make a blog and do something that isn’t shit post on it

5 astrological beans @StarrySailor  ·  Jan 7
FUCKING. MOM SAID SOMETHING THAT VAUGLELY SOUNDED LIKE ITS UR SONG. I TOOK OFF MY EARPHONES AND THNKS FR TH MMRS IS PLAYING.

Text was just a few tweets I had posted recently that really made me reflect on who I used to be as a person, aka the kind of person who listened to fall out boy way to much and used to post emo poetry on a blog.