Post 23

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

Twitter allows me to construct my reality. When I’m online, I can be much more outspoken and say things that I might be more afraid to say when in person. I think I probably seem a little bit cooler online than I am in person as well.

A way that I perform everyday is that I have to change for different people. I have one persona when I’m with my friends, another for my parents and another at work. It seems like a lot of work to have to be so many things, but I’ve learned to juggle.

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.

One social construct amongst my peers is the party scene. The same people always throw and attend the same parties and if you’re not there you’re deemed lame. Typically, I live my life outside of this social construct.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.

I guess I would say that my bedroom is a constructed space. I designed it to be comfortable for myself. I used bright colors to amp up my mood and dark curtains when I want to tone it down. I have my own photographs on the walls to remind myself that I have the ability to create beautiful things.

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?

Hunger is really. I can feel the emptiness in my stomach, and saliva pool in my mouth when I smell something good. Fast food restaurants are fabricated. They use aromas to make us think we’re hungry and psychologically chosen colors, to illicit hunger. They also use photographs of delicious food to entice, but never deliver.

5. Describe narrative tableaux that you might create to be captured by a photograph. Narrative tableaux can be defined as “Several human actors play out scenes from everyday life, history, myth or the fantasy of the direction artist” (Constructed Realities: The Art of Staged Photography Edited by Michael Kohler, 34).

I thought about constructing a scene at a café. Everyone goes about his or her business, eating, chatting, and typing. In the center of the bustle, a naked couple sits enjoying cappuccinos, unnoticed by the rest of the crowd. Just a thought.

6. Describe an idea for a photograph that includes a miniature stage or still life. A description of such an image is “The tableaux reconstructs events as in the narrative tableaux, but in miniaturized format, using dolls and other toy objects” (Kohler, 34).

One word: Gummy bears. I like to show the struggle of gummy bears that fall out of the bag and must find their way across the kitchen