Investigation

We started a new project in our technology class, which we have to create a self-portrait and design it with different kinds of materials to express yourself through your work. The materials could be anything you want to, such as if you like to read books, you could tear out book pages or magazines articles and stick it at the background. These kinds of small things can express you and you might find yourself new during the project, because this project is all about expressing feelings and emotions that you never have known and it is a good practice to discover yourself ^^

In our art class we as well as talked about portraits and why it was important. In my opinion, a self-portrait is a window to your soul, where it expresses your inner world. In the past portraits were used to ‘capture a photo’ of that person, but nowadays it is a tool to show the world about yourself. Some people might had a total different view of you, not knowing who you really are and by doing this project, it might also have some benefits for you to tell the world that you are not the person they were thinking of. For example, if you were a quite and shy girl in the school and you turned into a crazy and outgoing person at home or at places where no one will see you, then you could decorate your portrait with colorful shapes and materials that could as well as indicate that you have a hidden personality. Hence, it will change the way the others were thinking of you.

I think our project will relate to Human Ingenuity, simply because we are creating something by ourselves, but as well as it might relate to Health & Social Education as well. The mixed media self-portraits have to show some ideas about our personality and like I said previously, we could communicate with the others through this portrait and telling them who we really are.