I am now the proud owner of not one but two blogs here in the blogger community! This one, contrary to my personal blog, however will serve as a collective for my final undergraduate project here at GVSU. I tend to think out-loud and talk in chaotic circles...so here is a chance to spill, read, and re-read, here is an insight into my thoughts as the project develops.
This piece is about people. The ordinary people, the everyday people, the idea that you come in contact with umpteen amounts of people in your lifetime and the lives they live. In comparison to that, the life you yourself are choosing to live. Your sense of self. Your identity. Your ego.
The definition of the term "Ego" is the attempt to mediate between Id (the Id being the inaccessible part of our personality) and reality. It employs defense mechanisms, creates self-esteem, memory, judgment, tolerance, and control. If you think about it, it creates who we are. It helps give us a "self-identity".
So what if we could caught a glimpse into the lives of individuals we don't know. Would we be surprised? Would we feel like we understood? I plan on creating, through research, interviews, photographs, drawings, a look into the lives of the individual. An intimate portrait. A layering of all the things that make us who we are, human, raw, and individual.
Oh so many thoughts...
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