I rediscovered an old DSLR camera recently and have gotten into taking self portraits to pass time in my small studio apartment. The backdrop you see here is the set of curtains that I hung to conceal my messy storage shelves. Since being unemployed for the past three months, I’ve spent A LOT of time by myself. I find myself asking questions like Who am I? What am I here to do? What do I WANT to do? on daily basis. This period of self introspection and exploration has been different from others in the sense that it’s basically the only thing I have on my plate at the moment. When we remove all the noise - the job, the big city, the bad habits - we really are just left with ourselves. It can be scary if we aren’t willing to sit with ourselves in the silence. I thought it would be interesting to start this self portrait series as a way to capture this time period. My moods, my outfits, the everyday changes. Who knows, maybe this post will be the first of many. Pictures or not, I know I’ll keep digging deep to try to find the answers or at least get closer to them. Even if they don’t come, at least I’ll have these pictures to remember this “self” by.