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This was my graded unit from year 1 of HND Applied Arts and it was to do with the theme of inside out and I did mine on peoples spiritual animals. It was really interesting to me because of the native Americans had believed that everyone has a spirit animal that guides them. I decided to combined peoples faces with what animals they thought best suited them. I then hand dyed the dress and then hand sewed the dress together. It was my first attempt at doing a handmade dress and I found it to be fun as well as fiddly too.
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Asking myself the question, "Who am I?" accompanied a great deal of self reflection. Two ways in which I did so was first off by creating my artworks, the time I spent creating was also time I spent thinking. The other place I did so was the beach and along the coast. The beach is a place of serentity and calmness that allows me to not feel so overwhelmed by all my questions and thoughts.
The colors I use reflect how I felt reflecting at the beach mostly during hot summer afternoons. The warmth of the sun and bright blue of the ocean reflecting onto the sky.
Today I worked myself up over what I thought was the expectations of others, but turned out to be simply the expectations I had for myself.
I feel like life right now is about trying to figure out who the real "me" is when you peel away the labels that have become attached to the person I am---co-worker, roommate, friend, sister, daughter...etc.
It appears I still have some self-reflecting to come...but what better space to do it than the 365?
For FGR, Self-Reflection (thanks Maite for provoking my thoughts!)