THIS IS A TRANSFORMATION

Secret Identity - Ryan Simmons

Authentic Self Emily Brown

As far as I can tell, there is nothing more weird or authentic than a child with completely unearned confidence in what they are doing. I decided to do a redraw of a piece I drew when I was six (and again when I was 13), and try to conjure the same amount of carefree focus.

Authentic Self - Ryan Simmons

Interested in how to bring out my most authentic self, I decided to meet with a trusted individual and divulge aspects of myself that I rarely have talked about or have never discussed. The video displays every minute of the one hour conversation overlaid on each other, displaying body language and revealing the entire conversation without saying a word.

Secret Identity Emily Brown

In Class Identity - Kiersten Rakisits

Secret Identity - Jamyn Scarlet

Gretchen Jones

Authentic Self- Nakita Shelley

Painted my bod.

Authentic Self - Jamyn Scarlet

Embroidered Domestic Tools

Authentic Self- Janiyen Al-abdullah

For an authentic me I decided to take pictures of things that are either stopping me or helping me become my true self. The first picture is of a Polaroid that I have taken of burning money. Money is the root of most of my stress and problems that I have in my life, and I know it isn’t something that I cannot fix quickly, but must learn to find away around it so that it doesn’t bring me down. But if I could I would travel all over the world if money wasn’t a problem.

My next Polaroid is of skin care. When I was younger I wore a lot of makeup, it helped me to cover my insecurities that has still followed me into adult hood. But the difference now is that Ive decided to stop hiding behind makeup, stopped feeling sorry for myself and started to look for a solution to fix my insecurities and learn to love me for me.

Last Polaroid is one of the two things Ive learned to love while coming to college. Meditation has helped me in more ways than one, with the stress of a new year and the unknown of what is to come. While the wine has been a treat for myself when Ive worked hard, to help me celebrate the little things in life and enjoy the company I’m in.

Authentic Self- Anthony Ryder

https://youtu.be/aHlVQoFbBhg

Secret Identity- Janiyen Al-abdullah

In Class Identity- Nakita Shelley

Secret Identity - AJ Roberts

Inner weirdo/true self - AJ roberts

My true self is kinda hard to describe, let alone think about, a lot of the weekend resulted in me just asking myself questions. Who would I want to be? Why would I want to be that way? For the most part in the public, I'm very reserved and quiet. I've noticed when I'm with myself or just people I know very well that my more weird side shows, I can be really talkative, loud, maybe even a bit annoying. Sometimes even chaotic I would say; I know what I want and what I like. I tend not to show it out of respect for everyone else that may be around, I don't want to make people uncomfortable or send the wrong impression most of the time. Of course, when it really comes down to it I don't care a lot about what people think of me, yet that little insecurity does come out every now and again.

For the artwork I decided to personify it in an abstracted way, Messing with the negative spaces a bit, using colors that while mesh together still create a somewhat noisy blend. Shining in certain spots; The shapes are very smooth and slick, some wrapping around one another, Not caring where they end up.