I have been going through a lot of
change in my life. With change comes ways to see things differently, to be able
to look at a situation from a different side. For the last seven years I’ve
been in a relationship, recently we both decided that it was time to see the
world from a different, single perspective. It is true that you never really
know what something is going to be like until you are there. Being single is
one of those things for me. I had all of these expectations of what my new life
was going to bring me. I have to admit that very few of those expectations were
even remotely close to the reality that ensued. This is why I decided to make
this cartoon for my visual project about love and desire.
I chose to make a cartoon of my life.
I broke my life into certain scenarios that became prevalent in my newly single
life. These scenarios were: single life, college life, partying, and after sex.
These cartoons are nothing less than the reality that occurred, the hopeful
expectations followed by the over scrutinized reality. The first window hold
the expectations that I’d held before the setting occurred of how I would think
and feel while the second window held the cynical and almost depressing
realities that occurred as I lived through them.
This project was an opportunity to
open myself up and reflect on how I have developed these expectations. By
making it, it has helped me to understand how much the media actually
influences me. I hope that this cartoon could also help others to understand
themselves better so that we can become more aware of our expectations and be
able to formulate more realistic expectations.
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