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Mini Project introduction

As a mini project I have set myself a small target practice shoot into branching ideas on how I am visualising my end of year project, I have various mini projects all in planning and seeing which one will fit the project better. 

Creativity has no Limit on how to express Dyslexia or just express feelings. Showing Dyslexia within a self portrait, for me personally, it would help understand myself and how everything is how it seems and not should be hidden. For me, its finding a balance between how creative dyslexia can be and how no one is the same. 

for me Vince Low, who is a Dyslexic Illustrator from Malaysia, reading his own blog has an understanding how been approached by something or someone to reach his own potential by using something that is seen as scribbles yet use it for a campaign in fighting to make Dyslexia more aware.  It helps to find an understanding between my own ability and what boundaries are capable of being overcome. 

Researching into Durer, I find the low lighting and what appears to be done by using a creation of a single light, this draws you more into his expression and the composition itself of how little is being shown yet there is a certain drawn to it, its untitled on what it can make you feel or what connection you might feel as well. everyone could have their own personal opinion to this image.

Studying the image to detail. To create something similar, I would work more into a single light, depending how much light, I would chose into using a snoot or a honeycomb for more even light to the face.

For other techniques in to creating self portrait, there are various ways, reflection through a window, shadow, and even through a mirror reflection, I will be following vivian Maier, looking on reflection as an understanding to myself or signs. For me, reflection is how I visual things, signs are the main things, they show how words can be misspelled, putting the words backwards, using the wrong word, its easily done, this project will show how one individual (myself) lives with Dyslexia. 

Distortion and escaping 

Distortion can be shown in many ways, for example you can create multiple exposures, giving the image a sense of blur, created by movement such as moving the head side to side or moving your hand in front of the face. All this can show emotion or expression.

To visual how it is like to live with Dyslexia this project will allow me to express how distorted things can become, 

Escaping into another world ...

The word of escaping, can mean anything to the individual, escaping pain, memories but it can also give a sense of hope, to ease pain, to fall into another world, for me, the world of books are my escape, they can teach you things to learn daily, imagine, or just live in a book even for a moment.for me, my books became my second world, my escape from anything I wanted, if I was having a bad day, I would hide in them because I got the chance to let my mind wonder into another world, to create my own story, to live as if I was in the story with the characters of the pages. 

As an example, my top four books that allowed me to escape, they taught me more then escaping the world - they taught me to read, acceptance and growing up, they became my friends on pages. having Dyslexia and unable to read, books allowed me to go at me own pace, have my own expectations of who I was.