Self Portraiture: Self #001 ✨📸 - My ideas have come to me differently than what I am accustomed to since arriving in Michigan. After a brief period of feeling dislodged from myself—like a shell moving to unpack the many boxes that circumnavigated “my life”—I have gotten what is closely linked to “epiphanies” (which in reality feels more like a spiraled, downward web of connecting one idea to the next, that eventually curdles into a cohesive thought). 🌌🌀 - I find it fascinating. Waking up with these ideas of 100 different versions of myself, in the abstracted sense, leads me to believe I am making progress toward where I want to go. A final return to self-portraiture; one of my favorite pastimes. 🎭💭 Taking on this new role, I pushed myself to create again in the dark of night—the most inspiring time, one might say. I am obsessed with the idea of the clown—not the traditional clown, but as an object, or personifying this rat-on-a-wheel feeling inside of me. Wanting to create but bei...