I reviewed my profile image and considered the "me" it portrayed and the hidden. The profile image at I thought at first portrayed very little, it is after all just an edited image of my eye and the remaining element of my physical self remains unseen. The image is edited, experimentation with colours I did a number of years ago before the OCA. The colour of the edit also obscures my natural eye coloy. The image appears to portray nothing and yet it is the unseen the hidden aspect of self. I am deeply introverted not shy many people lump these two very different traits together. I am naturally comfortable hidden within my own world, I think and I look and listen. I am happiest on the edge of a room or a group of people and the closer I get towards the middle the more uncomfortable I become. Even this image hides the true colour of my eyes which is slightly different brown and blue (Central heterochromia) it is not that noticeable and of course eye color doesn't define anything apart maybe it is one thing I like about myself, maybe something slightly different. Maybe the eye is symbol of self or maybe it is the shape the circle that in the past has intrigued me - Carl Jung also described self has a circle http://www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk/blog/some-jungian-terms-explained [accessed 22/01/2019]
I am slightly different in a sense that I am here in world full of extroverts out there and I am here inside. Of course a very simplified view of a complex subject i.e self and our relationship with self and others. Maybe the image of the eye is just a way of reveling aspects that are hidden, the eyes are the windows into the soul but in the same breath they are mirrors that reflect others and the world beyond.
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