This was a quick experiment playing on the idea of how we tend to edit our lives on the Internet. It was also to highlight how our personalities seem to get confused as the Internet gives us a sense of confidence and protection. I took this photograph from the blogging website tumblr, this website has very little privacy options and once any information is uploaded it is out their for millions of people to see. After searching the popular 'tag' of 'confessions' I found this confession by a young girl 'Confessions from an insecure girl: It's odd really..I can be absolutely full out insecure about my physical appearance at any given time.' By tagging this post with the 'confessions' tag this meant that any person who searched this tag could find it. With her profile photo posted next to it she has willingly confessed a personal feeling to the world. What confuses me however is that once I clicked on her page, I was greeted with photograph after photograph of herself. And I'm not trying to make judgements here but in Group Crit we spoke about people who say one thing and do another in a contradicting manor. So for this piece I simply edited the contradicting statement over the photograph. I didn't spent alot of time on this as once I began I knew it wasn't really the path that I wanted to take and I didn't like the finale outcome. If I was to do this piece again I would spend more time looking for stronger statements and play around with the editing until I found an effect and composition of which I was happy with.
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