Self Portrait Assignment for New Media College Program.
Reflect & create a self portrait to represent you.
- Original Photo -
Taken by: Kayla Hughes @ Kreative Eye Studio
- My Vision of Self Portrait -
Self Portrait Evaluation
When it comes to designing a self-portrait you really have to look within and decided how you would like to be portrayed. My idea was to play up my spiritual side, so I knew I wanted to incorporate my astrological sign, which is an Aries represented by the ram. Referring to my natal chart, which is an astrological wheel containing various information on our personalities using the 12 houses, 12 astrological signs and the planets and moons and where everything was aligned at the time and place you were born. In my natal chart my sun and moon are both in Aries making me a very dominant Aries personality. Fire and red are also associated with Aries so I made my skin color a glowing red color and added some horns. I was told that in my past lives I was once a fortuneteller and also sorcerous. Magic and witchery are both associated with the powers of the moon plus that is where feminine comes from. Surprisingly enough the moonstone is also my stone for April 2. This is why I chose a space picture of the moon as my background and also put a little half crescent moon in the top right hand corner. Sacred Geometry is also used throughout my design representing interconnectivity and our connection to the divine and the whole universe. An altered state of consciousness is a state in which the mind perceives, conceives and processes information in a different way then it normally does. Such states include meditation, trances, astral travel, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairvoyance (and other psychic/spiritual/paranormal states) and hypnosis, dreams and daydreams. This is represented by the white light and organic swirls. White light is pure and related to the 7th chakra, the crown chakra or sahasrara, which connects our souls on earth to higher states of consciousness. In my yoga and life practice we are encouraged to find and release the beautiful goddesses within. To represent a goddess I wanted to make a sort of headdress. So I used the six-syllable chanting mantra ohm mani padme hum Sanskrit as the headband. The sounds Ohm mani padme hum represents the purification of the six realms of existence and their frequencies act as a harmonic sound resonance against blocking energy, or sleeping energy. I was overall excited about how my self-portrait turned out. A lot of it I designed and didn’t really realize how much underlying meaning it already had and how accurately it depicts me.
