self portrait diptych

For the frist photo assignment of my life, I had to create a diptych. A diptych, as I soon found out, were two pictures put next to each other that were somehow related. The first one of my pictues involved setting up a bunch of game board pieces on the living room coffee table, which my dad thought looked so amusing, he actually decided to take pictues of me doing the photoshoot. The assignment was kind of a relfection on my motto for the assignment, about how I'm generally very scatterbrained but I have to use very lienar and step by step thinking to complete tasks. While setting up, I was going crazy with all of the props and pieces, but taking the pictures I had to keep in mind the technicalities of photography such as shutterspeed, lighting and ISO settings.

My motto for the diptych is about how I have two completely different sides to my personality; on the one hand, my thoughts consist of ridiculously random jumps, skips, and roads of thought that make little to no sense. On the other, it is often required of me to use a very step by step method to complete tasks. The first picture demonstrates my scattered thoughts, using game board pieces and miscellaneous objects all leading towards a light bulb, symbolizing a single idea being produced from all of the surrounding mismatched thoughts. I placed a light behind the light bulb to make it appear illuminated by all the thoughts and ideas behind it. This is relevant to me because I feel as if I have to go through all the crazy steps in my mind before reaching an idea.

The second picture shows a caliper, one of the most precise measuring instruments, and a level. This shows the flip side of the previous photo in that I often am tasked to so things that are very careful and precise, like an engineering or building project that requires a very linear thought pattern, processing and finishing the project from point a to point b. The color is a steel grey, unlike the array of colors in the previous picture. In addition, only the tools are in focus to show that everything else goes away and there are no distractions from the task at hand.