https://vimeo.com/140077329
Artist’s
Statement: Self Portrait
My piece, entitled
“Self Portrait”, shows a girl drawing herself. The first picture she draws is a
glamourized version of her, the way she would like to present herself to
others. Deciding that this is not an accurate portrayal of herself, she erases
the picture and starts over. This time, she includes her flaws in the picture,
such as her messy hair and the bags under her eyes. This picture is more
accurate, but is not a picture she wants to show others. She doesn’t want
people to scrutinize her flaws! She scribbles out the face in her picture,
marring the face she doesn’t like, and goes to erase again. When she does, her
eraser tears holes in the paper, destroying not only the face she was drawing,
but also the surface on which she was drawing. Frustrated, she crumples up the
paper and throws it away. This piece is about self-representation and the way
we present ourselves to others. There is a disconnect between how we see
ourselves and how we want others to see us. In an ideal world, the glamourized
versions of ourselves that we show to other people would be our true selves,
and there would be no disconnect. My movie aims to show the elusiveness of
self-representation that shows our best selves and still feels true who we are.
As the protagonist struggles to find a representation of herself that she can
be content with, the violence with which she treats her materials destroys her
representation entirely. In the end, the protagonist gives up instead of trying
again, though that’s not to say that she can’t come back to it later. After
all, the sketchbook is still lying on the table.
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