Blog Prompt 23

1. There are many ways in which people construct their identity. One of the most public ways I construct my identity is through Facebook, which allows me to post photographs of myself or things that I am interested in. I put on my Facebook the things that I want people to know about me, therefore constructing an identity. I also construct my identity in the way I dress and the way I carry myself. However, based on all of the above, it is easy for people to perceive me differently than I think of myself.

2. I think that going to school gives people a constructed environment that allows people to socialize in a general way. For example, when meeting someone in a class often you ask, or are asked, the same kinds of questions, "where are you from", "what is your major", and "what year are you?" Sometimes this socially constructed environments are then used as a segue into a less constructed space.

3. My physical space is constructed to fit my needs and desires. For my personal space, like my desk, I enjoy organizing everything in a way that I find visually pleasing, even if it is not always practical. I find this kind of humorous because there isn't a lot about my life that I find organized. By constructing my physical space I am fulfilling my desire to be an organized person.

4.  Sometimes the way I interact with people in a classroom is more constructed than how I interact with people outside of that room. For me, it is hard to get to know classmates because the only obvious commonality is the course you're pursuing. Therefore, I think often times people will talk to classmates about things they do not find particularly interesting in order to make an attempt at conversation, when in reality the only thing you want to do is talk to that individual, not talk about the course.

5. I think an interesting narrative tableaux would be a series of photographs in which my dreams become reality. According to my roommate we have several conversations while I'm asleep throughout the course of a week. It would be fun to create a narrative tableaux in which photographs recreate the images that I'm dreaming about ("seeing") and the imagery that I'm describing.

6. Using the idea above, it would be necessary to use human actors and toy objects/dolls. One of the times that spoke with someone in my sleep consisted of them telling me to go back to sleep and my reply being "what about the little boy" as I pointed across the room. Using a constructed space and a little boy doll in the corner of a room would not only recreate the dream I was having, but would also recreate the imagery of the person I was talking to.