My photo is just a picture of me that alone is nothing special. However, I looked at it from an artistic point of view and thought, "How many Senior pictures look like a comic strip?" I couldn't think of any off of the top of my head so I thought, "Why not me?" So that's exactly what I did-made myself into a comic strip. I think that the pose has a very serious look, but the filter adds some interest, depth, and playfulness to the image! The reader is drawn to my hair bow, skin and eyes because of the darker values surrounding them such as my hair, sweater, and the bookcase.
I like this because typically I come off as a very serious and intense person, but once you get to know me you realize how light-hearted I am. I think that this image shows both things. That's why I hope to achieve this by the time I graduate. I don't want to only come off as only "serious" and "intense" but also just fun and unique! My goal is to achieve the "What you see is what you get effect" because as of now I don't think my internal and external characteristics are quite the same. I will achieve this by stepping outside of my comfort zone and opening up more to people, just like Vermeer urges Griet to do "You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes."(160)
I also want to clean up my personality without changing it. Much like in GWAPE where it says "He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face."(44) I want to become better at seeing things the way that others do not by the time I graduate.
