Music Mosaic

"Shaping Myself"

Hadley Scholz

   

       For this project I chose the song Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi and posted twelve pictures telling a story of one shaping themselves without the approval from others. For me the song drew the emotions of gaining something and then losing something, only to gain something stronger in the end. Personally I have been struggling to define myself without the aid of another. When I began dating my husband, he really emphasized the need for the both of us to be able to stand on our own, or shape ourselves without anyone else doing it for us. For my photos, I whited out myself in the first few images to represent a blank canvas that had yet to be created into anything substantial. When I fall in love with this man that comes along, he shapes me and I feel important. Once he leaves, all that definition that I had felt be established, disappears as well. The end result is that I discover that I can shape myself on my own and feel at peace with who I am without the approval of anyone else. I am standing on a curved path in the photos, which I felt represented the path of life that I am traveling, and the greenery surrounding me was meant to stand for the Earth that I live in. In the reading “Seeing” by Annie Dillard she went into great detail about some of the beauties of the Earth that we often take for granted. I loved the stories she shared of medical operations that were performed allowing the blind to see for the first time. Many thought the new sight was overwhelming and preferred their blindness. Sometimes we would rather shut out the new rather than embrace a truth we have discovered. Change is difficult but the effects of positive change can mold you into something greater than you thought possible.