Prompt 23

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

I think most people create their identities and how people view them by the way the portray themselves. They way I act in front of people gives them information on who I am as a person, but I have control of how I act, so I can shape or 'construct' who they think I am. 

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.

Culture is a constructed thing, and social environments develop from culture. People create everything in culture, so the way that people act and the things that they value determine what kind of culture you have and what environment you're in.  

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.

I determine everything that goes in it, usually with conscious thought about whether it belongs or not.  

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?

I don't want to say that everything is fake, but I do think that most people construct their identities based off how they want people to see them. I also think that how you construct yourself is definitely an insight into who you really are, or the 'real' you and what you value.  

5. Describe a narrative tableaux that you might create to be captured by a photograph. A narrative tableaux can be defined as “Several human actors play out scenes from everyday life, history, myth or the fantasy of the direction artist” ( Constructed Realities: The Art of Staged Photography Edited by Michael Kohler , 34).

It would be fun to have people act out a story for a series of photographs. I like the idea of everyday life being portrayed. It might be interesting to have people try to act out a normal thing and see how unnatural it ends up looking.

 6. Describe an idea for a photograph that includes a miniature stage or still life. A description of such an image is “The tableaux reconstructs events as in the narrative tableaux, but in miniaturized format, using dolls and other toy objects” (Kohler, 34).

I've seen some great examples of this using legos. They were placed in different places and positions that related to each other and created a story.