Identity Problems!

Recently, I've found it fairly difficult to understand who I am in terms of identity. I read a bit on Wikipedia about self-assessment and that if you say "I am lazy", this is self-assessment. Basicly, you're saying that you're lazy, where as if you said "I am tired" it's more of a self-concept.

I think one of the hardest things is discovering who you are in terms of yourself. What do you like to do, what is it that makes you you, why do you do certain things, what makes you do those things and what's your reason for doing it that way. These things I get very confused about, I simply can't get my head around them to a certain extent.

Therefore, I feel as if this, in a way, is a self-assessment and the result is that I get confused about more metaphorical or non-literal issues. So I want to reflect this through my work.

My first idea for an audio/visual aspect is to make a music video of my self to the song "Lies" by McFly. I was thinking of reflecting it to the world of advertising (an area im very interested and baffled by) to make it more dynamic, along side shots of me 'flipping out' with the confusion and lies that's created by advertising to a certain extent.

(I've never been good at putting my thoughts into words! ha)

Identities Exploration

As part of the identities module for next term, we've been told to find out what self identity means to us, and here's the beginning of a picture of various things I'm going to be working on.

The red symbolises the empowerment and feel I have over my future right now, being a successful colour and the darker tones give it a more sexual feel to it. The picture of me posed like that represents the sensitive side, but the bright colours show my more excitable personality. The Spice logo is part of what make me me. Growing up through the Spice phenomenon, it gave me a light into different people and to become a more sensitive person, so I felt it important to add it in here.