Some of our Pillow Palace artists chose to recreate their favourite things – possessions or activities – as how they wanted to represent themselves.
Are our faces always most important in relation to how others recognise and understand us?
DO:
Design or curate a self-portrait that doesn’t include your face – how else could you represent yourself? What makes you, you?
Is it more important to you that your self-portrait is immediately recognisable to others who know you? Or is it a chance to share something different about you that most people don’t know? Are you made up of many different things or lots of one thing?
Working online:
Create a playlist of your favourite music, podcasts or videos on a service like Spotify or YouTube, or a Pinterest board of recipes or pictures of your favourite hobby or topic.
Working offline:
Create a collection of objects that are dear to you – they could be of any kind – from special mementos or souvenirs to everyday things like cooking equipment, crafting tools, make-up or clothing! Arrange them together for a still-life study – drawn, painted, photographed or described.
We’ve made playlists on Spotify for our faceless self portraits – listen here…
We have made a Pinterest board of some of our work and some by others to inspire you – view here…
THINK:
Is your self-portrait always who you are now? How could you adapt your creation to reflect who you once were or would like to become?
Online:
Add old forgotten favourites to your playlist and enjoy rediscovering how much they meant to you and how you have since changed. Create a shopping wishlist for a hobby or activity you would like to do in future, or use Pinterest to plan a trip or holiday, or even your ideal future job.
Offline:
Reimagine your still life as if you were much younger or older – would the same objects still be representative of you, or would it look very different? Write a shopping list for a new hobby or a recipe you want to try. Or create a list of places you would like to go; then imagine what those lists might contain if you were writing them in another 10 or 20 years time!
SHARE:
Online:
Share your playlists, wishlists and boards with friends and invite them to share theirs – did you learn anything new about each other?
Offline:
Send your lists to a friend and ask them to tick off things they would also like to do or see – could you plan to do those things together?