Blog Prompt 23

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?
I think that we construct and deconstruct our identities every day. Everyday we learn something different about us and in this learning we understand what we are and what we are not: sometimes due the reflections of others and sometimes due our own inner reflection.

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.
I got to say that comming from a different country has made me understand where most of my traditions, customs and socio-cultural environment comes from and where do I go with it. I really have understand the differences between this country and my own and with that I have also understood how things work socially speaking.

Even when you are trying to avoid all of the prejudices that exist, there's this social image that we have created about the social environment of each country and it's impossible to not come here and realize of this. Luckily my experience has destroyed that prejudice and now I realize of the full range of things that are happening socially speaking.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.
I often believe that your room or your apartment is an actual representation of your mind. I remember also watching a video about creative people's desk: some of them liked the fact that it was messy but functional and others said that they preferred their desk to be neat and overly clean. Also this remembers me of the snapshot of two famous manga-ka (japanese comic artists) desk space: one of them was overly messy and the other one was overly clean which lead me to believe that as long as you feel comfortable, what you see is only a representation of your life.


4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?

When did this class got so Nietzchean/Kafka-esque or plain just Hesse-ian? And that's just what I answer, as I particularly wonder what is real and what is not. Right now, I have come to believe that the constructions are as real, that there's no real me but nothing than just a meta-construction that we've been having over the years. So, why to worry or bother about honesty if we are nothing but a construction? (Note to self: There are moments and events where honesty seems like a rule even between two constructed human beings)


5. Describe a narrative tableaux that you might create to be captured by a photograph. A narrative tableaux can be defined as “Several human actors play out scenes from everyday life, history, myth or the fantasy of the direction artist” ( Constructed Realities: The Art of Staged Photography Edited by Michael Kohler , 34).

I have been thinking on this story/game about a boy (me) going inside the Tanzpalanz (The Magic Theatre from "The steepen wolf" novel) and fights off his inner demons, all of them representations of his (or my) love life, making a point across how sometimes we go around saving others without even caring about our own needs. I have been thinking on turning that idea into an Art Game for my serious game design class as I believe it has potential.


6. Describe an idea for a photograph that includes a miniature stage or still life. A description of such an image is “The tableaux reconstructs events as in the narrative tableaux, but in miniaturized format, using dolls and other toy objects” (Kohler, 34).

I really really want to try out and do origami sets. I think they are cute, powerful and I want to try making a whole set with one color and one or two elements from another color. I really want to try that out, BUT my origami skills are zero to non-existant. So I need to think that carefully.