Becoming Complete
(c) 2010 A. Fusion
Each photo is supposed to have a deeper meaning to it and each time, I need to find a new way to express that so that my ideas and photography do not become stale. Plus, self portraits are actually much harder than taking another person's portrait. Strange but true.
In order to understand how this photo came about, you'd have to understand how my signature came about. A. Fusion is a play on words. A can be taken to mean Angela or it can just be A. It can also resemble my initials of AF. I chose this name, because when I started with photography and graphic design, it ended up being the media I needed to sew up all my contrasting sides. Art teachers always hated my use of contrast and light. Some of them didn't like my subject matter. Some didn't like the way I composed my drawings. Etc. Etc. There has always seemed to be these conflicting sides in my personality that battle each other constantly. A lot of times, this came out in my artwork. It doesn't help when you are drawing or sculpting, but for some reason, all these sides came together and worked together perfectly with photography. They didn't completely come together, they just began to play nice with each other. So I began my signature A. Fusion, which actually means 'a fusion of contrasts' to me. Photography is what finally made me feel whole.
Sooooo I tried to show a few different conflicting sides and how they are slowly coming together. The 'face life head on' side, the 'always worrying/ feeling needlessly guilty' side, and the 'insecure yet confident' side of myself (just to name a few). They seem to be the biggest contenders for the spot light. Even when we see that something is a 'fault' in ourselves, it is still part of us, still part of what makes up who we are. If they don't work together, you don't work. One keeps the other in check.
Also, just because I am in love with my hat, I did a bonus picture, unrelated to this project :) I loved the way the lighting worked for it.
Reflection
(c) 2010 A. Fusion
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