Anish Self-Portrait

My self-portrait project was basically just about people should make there own decisions. The only people who should control themselves is them, because if you let other people control and let them make decisions for you, than you will never be able to grow and mature. John Locke believed in empiricism, which means that all knowledge comes from experience, and the only way that we experience things is by doing things on our own, so if we let other people control our actions and experiences then we will never obtain any knowledge. When we do certain things we usually do it by ourselves, and when experience things by ourselves we learn better because we are actually doing the experience without any help or without anyone controlling us. For example, if parents always carried around their baby because the baby can’t walk, than the baby will never learn to walk because their parents never let the baby try and experience how difficult it is. After numerous tries the baby will learn how to walk because the baby is doing it by itself with a little assistance. With all of the decisions that we make leads to another road or another consequence, so we must make all the right decisions instead of letting other people choose because it will affect the future.
           In this portrait I put myself as a puppet attached by string, which I was made by chalk attached to wood. A puppet is usually a person or thing that is controlled by another person or thing. This represents that the only the thing or person that should and can control me is only me. The roads in the background represent all of the different consequences or outcomes that can happen from the decisions I make which are endless. The use of the mist in the background represents isolation, and showing that should think and control myself. Isolation means being remote and by yourself. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours-it is an amazing journey-and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life begins,” Bob Moawad.