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This self-portrait of mine began with a simple pun of portraying my inner workings: my “sole”, so to speak. This led to the idea of a shoe, and objects therein which I can identify with. I soon chose to only contain objects in this shoe with some kind of hobby of mine, be it movies, games, Apple-related content, iPhone, music, transportation, electronics, etc; the reason behind this was that since I feel most identifiable with these objects that represent my hobbies, they belong closest to my “sole”. Anyone who wants to get me talking can ask me about these objects or hobbies, and thus can learn more about who I am and my core values. Surrounding the shoe’s environment is the abstract rendering of reality – a cartoony nature where the Sun has a goofy grin, and the grass color is unnatural. This is to represent a lack of grounding in reality. I’m a rather aloof person at times, and my humor can sometimes be rather childish. I hope the expression the Sun wears can relate that. However, it is not a simple surrounding the shoe sits in (no child could draw that “childish” drawing), which I relate to the world I live in; it’s complex. I chose to retain the colors as bright and vibrant as they are to depict my cheerful personality and my love for fun and laughter. I’ve had a bit of experience with Photoshop before, yet I decided upon preserving blur artifacts to underline the subtly abrupt changes in my life and that my life and my “sole” itself is not perfect.
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I like the goofy sun best.