To be totally honestI like to think of myself as an artistic creative, innovative and unique equivalent. Is it true though?
It’s just as I said I would “like” to think of myself in that way, but the truth is sadly the total opposite. We are the way the system (economy) wants us to be, no personality. We are a manufactured product that was shaped by all the influences that were part of our lives. Our parents only teach us so much, everything else is learned by adapting to others and god beware if we would break any of those “rules” we could destroy our social profile. Social Profile? It is the way other people see us and what is more important it is the way we WANT people to see us. That lead to a simple question:
“How much of our personality is actually ourself?”
Some think that every decision we make is based on what we like or dislike. However, there is factor that includes what other people might think of us we do this or that. Because of this our decision making is influenced and shaped in the way we want to be seen. We want to be “good” and that means we follow all the outlines of society and try to include ourself the way we find appealing. You could say that we are a couple of soulless machines that are doing their jobs without question and are caged to a set of borders we made ourselves. The sad part is that even if we do not follow the rules and think we got a freedom of choice we still doing it without realizing that we only doing that because we want to oppose the economy. Moreover, there are people that are not included in this “the Overman” (Friedrich Nietzsche) . Those people do not care about any of this and doing things just because they want to without ever question themselves why they are doing this. However those people are extremely rare and there are a lot of people trying to mimic and want to be like them (caged by society).
What I wanted to express with these two images is the way we are and that people are like a mass product almost identical another and even though we want to be different we make choices that are calculated and crusted by our system. Even though you are trying to change your appearance you are still just a canvas with another color or texture.
Make of this concept what you want. I just found my inspiration by think of these questions and gave myself some room to express these thoughts.
