I relate to my art making kind of like it is and extra appendage or body part. It’s there all the time and I can’t make it go away even if I tried. I like to think I am talented at other art forms like drawing and painting, but I made a natural progression in to photography because it became the best medium for me to clearly express my ideas. I feel like my concepts and thoughts are best translated in photographic form, and I recognize my photography as a way for other people to understand what is going on inside my head in a way that nothing else could illustrate. So much of the art I make is connected with the rest of my thought processes and emotions. I use my photography as a way to answer my own questions, make sense of my curiosities, understand my relationship to other people and things, and grow as a person. I have a need to be understood. I’m always subconsciously trying to make connections between myself and the people around me and making photography a part of my life helps me take a step back from these things and look at them in a more tangible form. Through this process I can study my unspeakable feelings as objects. I learn from every assignment I complete and every picture I take. I love looking at a contact sheet and figuring out idiosyncrasies about my personality at the same time. Everything I make is a direct product of myself. If I didn’t have this art form as an outlet I would feel less whole as an individual. I chose VCU Arts intentionally and do not wish to be anywhere else. Every situation is what we choose to make it, so if I continue to have the desire to learn and absorb all I can now, then in turn, my future can be limitlessly successful.
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Ok this is pretty good. I mean you obviously didn't write it for this class which is....slack. I understand why your attached to it. It's interesting, BUT it's only interesting. It becomes more interesting after I read your other post about how to tried to relate to a medium that you are unfamiliar with. But in regard to what you have here above you have to learn to edit based upon context. I am not the same teacher you wrote this for and it is not the same assignment. I am not saying you can't use this but you can't use it all. Make it fit the purpose- that's what you have to remember. Make it work for you!
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