Through my choices of content I believe I have quite accurately given insight into my life through this multi-media collage of a self portrait.

1. My two audio clips are the processes of song-writing I go through when creating a work. They’re both very rough and in the early stages of writing – without accompaniment or effects and in the space of my bedroom. Apologies but I haven’t put these on my blog because I don’t like to publish my music in a public domain before it is completely finished.

2. My fifty words of text are all messages I sent to friends in the past few weeks. It shows my self-deprecating nature, passionate love of food and contradictory relationship to socialising.

3. My four photographic images show my personal aesthetic and interests. The first image is a photograph of a hand-cut collage I made as a present for my niece’s first Christmas. The colours here and in my other pictorial media show my penchant for overt-femininity. My second photo is candidly of my bedside table (quite self explanatory). The third is of some equipment I use to make jewellery, another pursuit of mine, and the violence of the nail through the dinosaur toy shows my dark sense of humour. And the final image is my copy of the book ‘Science Of The X-Files’ – simply because I really like the X-Files and equate my sexual awakening with crushing on David Duchovny as a preteen.

5. My first video is a composite of objects around my bedroom. I chose to have no sound in the clip because I wanted to focus on the individual items, the reiteration of colour and line and the contrast between the front-on and aerial perspectives. There’s an aerial shot of myself in the final frame, but I blend in with my surroundings and it reinforces my being at one within this space.
The second piece of video is of my friends at an out-of-hand party where everybody got tattoos. My friends (especially the ones featured in this clip) make a valuable contribution to my self portrait because they have influenced and supported me. There is no better reflection of myself than my closest friends. The speed of the cuts and the quick changes in music are reflective of the snowballing nonsense. Also the background music indicates my taste; Elvis, Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra, Donna Summer, The Gun Club, The Velvet Underground etc.