As a simple exercise in Photoshop layering and masks, my Design Principles class asked us to create a mindmap of ourselves- essentially a self portrait of our perspectives as opposed to our appearances.
The central theme of my mind map is the "lovely melancholy" of wandering. The piece's base layer is an altered image of the Carina Nebula, which is then covered in text from The Little Prince, and my own photographs I have taken of Providence. Outer space, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novel, and my recent urban travels all tie into my fascination with exploration. I chose to obscure these images within to encourage a visual exploration of the piece as well. I incorporated my fondness of birds (as a grounding focal point) and hexagonal shapes (as a textural quality) as more direct images. As I continued working, my piece morphed into something more mysterious, which I played with to get this end result.
