rough draft.

I chose identity for my big idea. Identity is something which pervades so much of what it is to be human, even stretching to inanimate objects. What constitutes a person, and what highlights them differently so than another? Do objects have specific characteristics and if they do, especially human characteristics, how do those come to be? Are they innate or ascribed? Is the identity of individual people innate or fabricated solely per their social circumstances? The concept of identity is so core to the human experience that an artist can't help but address it either directly or inadvertently. Works that disregard the importance of identity fail to tap into the considerations of the viewer, and may fall short of their potential impact.

In my brainstorming i simply worked from the terms "identity" and "self." Each individual term can be a subset of the other. Were "identity" to be couched within "self," the result would consider what marks that one self against another. Were the opposite true, it would be to consider the way in which a self is established within the massive concept which is identity.