Identity Change

High school was not all that long ago but in those few short years I feel like I am a new person. I look at life differently. I have different friends, different demands, different choices I have to make. It is funny to me because in high school you really do think that you are grown up and very mature, or at least I did. But then you go to college and get a huge smack in the face and actually have to start caring and worrying about things you never needed to while living with mom and dad. I think that I am wiser now, which I should be since I have been through more, than that of a 18 year old high school graduate. I also takes things more seriously like school and work in college because I know that my choice now will really affect my first job that I hope to get in the next few years.

My artwork has changed and I think it is because I was very much about pleasing others in high school whether it be my teachers or my parents. I did do a lot of portraits and realistic paintings in high school and now I am starting to do more and more abstract ( which I never liked in high school) basically because I am starting to develop deeper ideas and emotions versus making art work to WOW my peers. I think this is a good step for me to improving my art and making my identity as an artist stronger and more personal. After the readings in RWR where it discussed about teachers and their horrible step ups for a classroom and how art if often was on the defense and the teachers has to stick up for what they were doing, it made me think of how my identity after I have been teachering for some time will change. I have a feeling that my artwork will change as well.