Entry 14 - Truest Likeness

These are all of my Facebook profile pictures, all the way from 2007 up to today's date. I believe these images make up a part of the truest image of myself. While not all of them are self portraits, these are the images I chose to represent myself on my public profile. I believe the reasons I had behind choosing each image at the time had to do with that image being relevant to my physical and mental state at the time. They are a timeline of who I was friends with, what I was interested in, and how my physical appearance changed. One thing that is consistent is the gaze. My gaze is always out towards the viewer which I believe points to me being a confident individual.  A majority of the pictures have become double portraits because I tend to choose pictures where another person who is important to me is present. By averaging all these pictures together, I know that you can get the truest likeness of me possible.

Entry 13 - Personal Identity

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, 1770, National Gallery of Art (D.C.)

Oil on Canvas

(http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.46303.html?opensection=history)

Barring the physical differences, this could be a portrait of myself. Every since I was young I have enjoyed reading immensely and you could often find me tucked away reading something. She also has a quiet, withdrawn presence to her, much like myself.