Diving Into The Ocean

For the senior STEAM class called Systems & Models, we learned about the different types of personality tests. For example, we learned about Myers Briggs - which is a personality test that you answer questions and based on the answers given from the questions you get one of the 16 personalities.  For this action project we made a self portrait that is supposed to describe us from a personality or psychological perspective. In this class we visited the Museum of Contemporary Art. We visited this museum to help us get ready to write our artist statements. I found that there was one piece, a sliver blanket and the artist had a long and detailed artist statement of why he chose to do this piece. I took inspiration from his artist statement when I wrote mine. The hardest part of making this project was that I made a collage and I needed magazines. We had no magazines at school and I have none at home. I fixed this problem by just printing out things that I liked and making the collage with the pictures I printed out. My favorite part was figuring out what I was going to do with my piece of fabric.

My piece is called "Diving in the Ocean". I named my piece this because the whole story was supposed to be me in a pool and slowly drowning and thinking of all the things that make me, me. My piece is 12” by 12” in a 14” by 14” square fabric. My forehead has pictures of my friends. I put pictures of my friends, because I am always thinking about my friends even before myself sometimes. I think that the fact that I think about others even though it doesn’t always have anything in it for me. Explains, why I am a Compromising according to the TKI Model Conflict Instrument -which is a test that determines how you would react in an argument in the workplace. I do agree with this I am usually compromising with people in arguments because I feel bad and don’t want to argue with people. I under the pictures of my friends I have my Normal eyebrows I didn’t change them, because they aren’t something I think about. The next part is my eyes. I put pictures of anime eyes and also stranger things. I put these two things because those are the two shows that I am usually watching with my mom or my friends.

I also took the color test. This test said that I was Orange. Orange meaning that I am dominant and a leader. I disagree with this because I would rather spend time being an introvert and watching anime by myself and I don't think I am very dominant either. which is what I wanted to express when I put the television shows. I wanted to express that these are important memories of me connecting with others. My cheeks are normal because they are something that I have always had a problem with since I was little and more as grew up. I don't have the perfect jawline and cheekbones that people want so much but I do have what I have and I accept that I am different from others. My mouth is also the same. I chose to not out anything for my mouth because my mouth is normal I use it to speak or I use it to not speak. I didn’t feel the need to change it. My ears have little heads of musicians. I have drake and Asap Rocky. I love Drake and asap rocky. I put them in my ears because that is who I am usually listening to when it comes to music choice or like Tyler the creator.

The purpose of my piece was to show who I am as a person even though I change in situations that don't mean that I am being fake or that I am not being myself It is just me showing a different side of me to people that I am comfortable with. The DISC says that I am Supportive and Inspiring meaning that I am helpful, sensitive, kind and friendly. This test says that I am people orientated and that I like to avoid conflict. I agree with this test. Like the TKI states, I like to compromise instead of arguing because I don't want to argue with people that I care about or don't know. The Myers Brigs and another test. This test told me that I am Entertainer or ESFP. The test says that when their friends are upset they show empathy and sympathy and when there is the crisis we adapt. The tests show the different sides of me that I don't always want to show to others. I think that they are a cool and fun way to find out about people.

Al "Diving into the ocean"(2018)