Tag Art

The hardest part of this project was trying to come up with a "tag name." It seemed as though the people in the video were creating identities that they felt represented the way they wanted the outside world to see them. I'm not yet sure how I want the world to see me, but I created a name that represented my life/social scene today.

I chose "Green and Dumb" as the name I wanted to use. It seems as though my life is in transition. A transition that I have not previously experienced. My surroundings are changing. People are graduating and moving, getting engaged and moving, starting new phases of their lives, while I seem to be stuck in a very constant state of uncertainty about my own future. "Green and Dumb" is the name of a song by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. It too seems to be a song about the uncertainty of life. It is also a song that I most closely associate with one of the people in my life who is moving on, someone who has also made a very profound impact on me learning how to find myself.

I chose to create my peice out of the pages of a book called "The Kite Runner." This book is one that helped me decide one of the only things in my life I know with certainty, I want to work in the Publishing Industry when I graduate. It was highly influential in my life. I also wrote the lyrics that one of my roommates wrote about me before he left across the words. They aren't profoundly deep or moving, but he wrote them about me. He too has had a deep impact on who I am, and I thought that it was only appropriate that his words be included. I feel like words are the best way to understand someone, and I thought that it was important that I included a lot of words in my peice.

To me, this peice represents the uncertainty that currently exists in my life and in my social circle, but also the path that can be found in uncertainty. It represents the impact that people can have on your life, and the way you can show their importance without saying much at all.