Digital Self-Portrait / Justin Hawkes / 355
Digital Self-Portrait / By: Justin Hawkes / "Checkered Past"
The idea behind my photo isn't completely relevant because I like the viewer to relate to the photo in any way they personally can. That is the reason for the strait face as opposed to a frown or a smile or anything in-between. Each mosaic tile represents an event and each color represents a feeling. Now, we all know that each event we are presented with evokes a feeling within ourselves. This piece is open to interpretation so that the viewer can relate a certain event (tile) with a certain feeling (color), then come to a consensus or the realization that the mosaic colors/tiles in the foreground and background all link together to represent how everything that has happened to you and everything that will happen to you has made you who you are today.
The eye isn't colored to seclude and bring attention to it. The seclusion promotes the idea that it is, "the minds eye", "3rd eye" or, "inner eye" (whatever you may know it as). The minds eye is essentially an invisible eye that provides perception beyond ordinary site, bringing forth the interpretation, that with experience comes knowledge and with knowledge comes the ability to make better decisions that will aide in the creation of who you are to become.
To come full circle with the piece; To describe art is like describing a feeling that you've never experienced before, you may not know the words to illustrate that feeling so you use the closest metaphor and/or single word(s) you can. Which, in some cases, may seem like an understatement. To me, one exemplification of art I have come to relate with is, "A stream of consciousness, a manifestation of the mind's eye, a dream. . . " (Hood 8-10). If art is a manifestation of the minds eye, then the eye in the piece is, in a way, is what created itself.
The eye isn't colored to seclude and bring attention to it. The seclusion promotes the idea that it is, "the minds eye", "3rd eye" or, "inner eye" (whatever you may know it as). The minds eye is essentially an invisible eye that provides perception beyond ordinary site, bringing forth the interpretation, that with experience comes knowledge and with knowledge comes the ability to make better decisions that will aide in the creation of who you are to become.
To come full circle with the piece; To describe art is like describing a feeling that you've never experienced before, you may not know the words to illustrate that feeling so you use the closest metaphor and/or single word(s) you can. Which, in some cases, may seem like an understatement. To me, one exemplification of art I have come to relate with is, "A stream of consciousness, a manifestation of the mind's eye, a dream. . . " (Hood 8-10). If art is a manifestation of the minds eye, then the eye in the piece is, in a way, is what created itself.
Excited to critique this, Justin. Very interesting.
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