Identifying Identity

We just started our first project of the year, and it’s all about identity. We started out by doing some research into what identity actually meant, and our group narrowed our definitions down to “Characteristics determining someone or something”. We settled on this definition because you’re different characteristics combined gives you a unique identity. After making a definition, we had to compare it to the actual definition, which is “The fact of being who or what a person is”. It was pretty interesting to see the similarities and differences between our definition and the actual one, and I think we ended up pretty close. We also talked about changing ones identity, and how some people may find it easier to do than others, which could be a part of their identity in of itself.

While this was happening, we were encouraged to think about our own identity, and we ended doing a double exposure (A photo over another photo), which we then made into a gif with things that are important parts of our identity. Here’s mine:

In the gif, you can see the main image of me with smaller images appearing around me. The main image shows some trees overlaid onto me, and this is to represent an important part of my identity. It represents my love for the outdoors, and how I like to go on hikes to new places and look for old paths in the forest by my house. All the smaller images phasing in and out of the gif represent some of my hobbies and other things that make an impact on my identity. And not just anything, but things that have stuck with me for a long time, like reading or acting, that are just as important to my identity as my age or family.

So, in conclusion, I have learned a lot from this project so far, like how different people perceive identity, and how they affect or are affected by it. I even did some reflecting on my own identity for this project, and realized a few things about myself that I hadn’t really thought of before. It was also fun to learn how to do a double exposure, which created a unique way of showing some aspects of my identity. That’s about it for this blog post, but not this project, so stay tuned for more!