I thought that this assignment was a very unique and clever way to get us to learn more about how installation art works. I think, while project 1 acted as more of a warmup round to understanding installation art, this project gave us a lot more possibilities and allowed us to explore our creative freedom a little deeper.
Because of this, I decided to revolve around a theme that was way more personal and meaningful then the last one and I’m glad I chose this route. For a while now, I have I wanted to focus a project around my coming out story, rather the few months leading up to before I came out., but just never had the right tools to do it justice until now. That was one of the things that I loved about this assignment was that it allowed us to tell a story from our own perspective in a very visual, straight-forward manner and I wanted to take advantage of that as much as possible.
The outcome of this project turned out pretty much exactly how I wanted it to. One thing that was less of a bad turnout and more of a pleasant surprise was how over the top some of the scenes were. The background music (copyright free btw), the quotes delivered by my “actors”, along with my acting were done so in a way that was very overly dramatic, but I think honestly did a good job at conveying the idea that I took a not so serious situation and made it feel like one. It’s really weird how much it seems like not a big deal after you come out, but beforehand, it’s a matter of life or death. It’s an aspect that I’m sure many individuals who have had similar coming out process can relate to and those who haven’t, can hopefully see it from this perspective.
Overall, I really enjoyed this project. It took forever, but I am very happy with the result.
