Portrait Ideas

This is perhaps my least anicipated assignment because I'm having a hard time coming up with a possible solid idea. On one hand I want to make it a celebration of individuals who have fostered me into the person I am today. Another idea would be to focus more on me being gay, as that is something very key to my identity. But, the idea I think I'm going to decide to go with is a reading of blog posts from my personal blog that I made 3 years ago. On it, I post very personal things that are ridiculously uncensored and blunt, something I rarely am in real life. I worry about doing this though because it may be too truthful and make others feel weird. My blog has posts that talk about suicide, betrayal, sexuality, and frustration, things that we all seldom talk about casually to other people. But will disclosing these things make people think I'm a weird person, or will everyone feel less restricted conversing with me? Will I feel released from my chains as an individual, or will I want to hide behind a paper bag from the embarassment?

If I decide to scratch that idea, I have very few other ideas circulating in my head. I might be less literal and just make a weird abstract version of it and throw nonsensible phrases. Whatever I do, I want my audience to feel something, something good, bad, and ugly. I want them to know who I am, and what shaped me throughout my life to who I am today. I want to feel the sweet, sweet release of being unapologetic.

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