Upon presenting my lo-fi self-portrait to my group of peers I felt a bit odd, a little uncomfortable, a wee bit squeamish… I’m not an introvertive person, I’m not someone who fears the public domain; but having others critique your work can be unsettling. I openly and freely accept criticism, we all need it in order to improve our work. It’s the fact that this is a ‘self’-portrait that makes me feel such a way; because in order to create the portrait we have to have a certain degree of insight into our own identity- both how others see us and we see ourselves.

That’s rather…….personal tbh…. I don’t particularly want people to glimpse that side; but that’s part of media, or is it? Are we expected to live our entire lives underneath the scrutiny of the public eye? Am I in the Truman Show? (Existential question ikr). I don’t think self-portraits were a very good first assignment, I realise they were just trying to get us to get to know each other, but it exposes too much too soon. I’ve had two tutorials with these people I don’t need them in my head thanks.

Hence, the hi-fi self-portrait is going to be pretty fun…. yay….