Author: Kofi

Creating an image of myself through the stuff I tote around made me realize how much my bag actually shows about myself. Even down to the smallest detail of my chemistry assignment benign crumbled up, I feel that things I carry are representative of the way I carry myself and the way I go about life. I tend to traverse through life lightly and not over-complicate my existence. Contrary to carrying things that I don’t need, I actually like to pack my bag pretty light. This attests to my desire to not let things weigh me down. Whether that be a difficult assignment that I have to complete sometimes (anything chemistry) or an interestingly random wave of feelings that comes over me. I used the word sometimes in almost all of my descriptions because all of the belongings I carry in my bag aren’t getting used on a daily basis. I feel that it also acts as a fun punctuation of sorts. It looks cooler than just using a “.” I laid my belongings out with no particular structure in mind, then later realized that the more central items are used more frequently than the stuff in the periphery. This is likely due to those things being thrown around on top of stuff in my bag. I know that I’m on a streak of saying this right now, but this has been my favorite assignment that we have completed thus far because it has allowed me to take a look at myself in a new light and smile in the process as I made out the type of person I am with a little wittiness sprinkled in between the lines. 

This has been one of the most difficult assignments from an English course I have completed. I’m aware that this likely wasn’t Mr. Morgen’s intention but I think my desire to find the perfect blend between two images was what made the process of creating this combophoto so enduring. It took me a while to even find the first picture that I would then combine with its auxiliary photo. I experimented with different images and photo editing software, ultimately using Flickr and CapCut, to create the blend that would produce the combo photo I was looking for. The final image shows a wide variety of colored pencils blending into an assortment of colored twizzlers. Although quite simplistic I feel that my image conveys the idea that color can be used as a bridge between different spaces. By that I mean, one can be transported from one place to another through the manipulation of color.