Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Personal Identity on the Web

The following are a list of images that I think could represent elements of my life (or my being):

Piano
CDs
Francis Schaeffer’s How Shall We Then Live?
Bible
Personal journal
Microphone
Laptop
Afro pick
The McDaniel arch
Pen

My Reflection:

I would like to include as many elements as possible: my critical enjoyment of music, my musicianship (both performance and creativity), writing, my Christian faith, my philosophical fascination. (I’m not sure whether I would "broadcast" the color of my skin, not that I am embarrassed by it, but I don’t know how necessary it is. However, if I were to put up a picture up of myself, then that would be that.) I suppose I would construct myself as thinking black, young man who has an interest in the arts, both in critically assessing them and creatively participating in "art-making," all of which is informed by my foundation of faith in Christ. Hopefully this would not be a construction of an identity for myself, but a presentation of certain integrated parts of the person that I am.
I think my personal homepage would be very text-based. The images I might choose to use on the site might be a pen or a piano (a picture of me playing the keyboard is on my blog). Maybe these would act as links or "headers" to or of different parts of the site—works and information about my band, respectively. I would be extremely careful that nothing would come off cheesy, however.

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