Who are you?

Rene Magritte’s portraits famously depicted mysterious symbols, figures, and objects. For good reason, I think; he did believe that images were “unknowable”. Who? is a collage grumpily made for a studio class that unabashedly asked to express “who you were” in a picture. I don’t know, do you? Sounds like a therapy art-class I attended once where we painted wooden camels.

Are you your birthplace? Your culture? Your history? Your interests? Your experiences? If a combination of these, in what proportion do each play a role? What a vague question; can you even choose? Is it a continuous consciousness, like Locke says? Or just what you see in a mirror?

Whatever it is, Who? is a mishmash of images that represent things from my childhood. The point is, you can’t tell what they all mean by looking at them. Guess you’ll have to ask me in person.