Who Are You?
Art & Identity
Art & Identity:
In this week's Starling we consider the connection between art and identity. Who are you and how does that influence your expression? In the links and content below you will find information about the people, ideas and practices I discussed in the show.
Personality Tests:
One of the practices I mentioned this week is to take some personality tests and evaluate whether you think it is actually right? Check out these links and see what you discover.
Frida Khalo
Explore the art of Frida Khalo and information about her life story at the links below:
Cindy Sherman
Learn about Cindy Sherman and her photographs at the links below:
A song For Rrose Selavay
This one wasn't on Spotify so I couldn't put it in the playlist. Plus the video is interesting. Here is a song for Duchamp's alter ego.
POLA TOG: RROSE SÉLAVY | Official Music Video
Suggested Practices:
- Look at your personality through personality tests like Myers Briggs and Enneagram (see links below)
- Evaluate whether you think these test results are correct. If you had taken these tests at different points in your life would the results be the same?
- Nesting Doll - Look at each part of your development by taking apart your nesting doll and looking at your periods of artistic expression.
- Where did you earn your wings? Create something to honor obstacles that you have overcome. Look at experiences that fundamentally changed you and see what you can make from that.
- Look at parts of you you have not explored in your creative practice. Be brave and look at things you have not explored before including darker aspects or critical parts. What can you make to pull those pieces out and examine them?
- Cindy Sherman - try on another personality. Put yourself in the place of someone else. Try to see what is like to be someone that you struggle to understand. Create around that.
- Self Portrait - create a self portrait in any style (even a selfie). Don't think about it to hard, just make it. And then ask a trusted friend or family member to tell you what they see in your work.
Playlist: Me, Myself & I
This week's playlist around self discovery and identity.
Let Me Know...
Let me know somethings about you. Share your self portrait on my Facebook page: Starling Creative Living, on Instagram @thestarlingcreative or Twitter @artteacheramy
I will be taking next week of and Starling will return in mid September.