My Big idea is identity. I sought out to create a final project that send the message that everyone essentially creates who they are by what they do. Yet, another challenge was to encompass this creation in a way that does not only entail a single facet of one’s life, such as their job, or relationships. I was seeking to personify the idea that every single action we do, makes us who we are. I then used the internet as a resource to find common links of what people determined was their version of identity. What I found was quite a few pictures of question marks but I began to realize that almost everything we do, we do with our hands. We form relationships, communicate, feed ourselves, and make a living all with the help of our hands. So why not find a way to create an image out of hands? I could imagine my artwork being used for an album cover perhaps. There aren’t an incredibly amount of elements but I feel as if the simplicity makes them all the better.
Along with my Big Idea being identity, my references are pictures from flickr about how people interpret identity, Kid Cudi album covers, and essentially my own past. I really like how Kid Cudi seems to place images of himself in the other worldly places such as space, or the moon. I included my past as reference because as i thought about the way one uses their hands to craft who they are, it brought about many of the key defining experiences in my life that i denote as being important in developing who I am. The photoshop element that I would like to try and include in my project is the Bubblewrap technique.
