What Makes You You? Each answer acts as an inspiration for me to create a unique digital image.
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number 649
The belief and spontaneity that one day you could just pack everything up and runaway without any cares and no one could stop you. I love this idea that freedom can be something that ties someone down, however it also gives a person never ending creativity.
inspired by Elizabeth Keen
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number 648
You’re welcome! I would say the clothes I wear, I always wear something really bright and colourful which reflects my upbeat personality! I also think the music I listen to makes me me, as I’ll listen to different music when I’m in different moods such as jazz when I’m happy, or classical when I’m relaxed. Also, I think what makes me me is the impact I have on other people however big or small that is, whether I’ve done a favour for a family member or friend, done a random act of kindness for a stranger or done some volunteering for my local community.
inspired by Sophie Ellen
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number 647
What makes me me is what I want to be for others, for example I want to be a good daughter to my mother so I’ll behave like one or I want to be a good friend to my friends so I’ll be have like one..also the perception sometimes of my closest people can define me and behaviours that I feel comfortable with and others appreciate them for example kindness etc..
inspired by Aspasia Arouva
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number 646
a brain like a Russian doll of parentheticals
inspired by Jennifer Justice
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number 645
Writing, fashion, reading, learning, art, dreaming, imposter syndrome, family life, friends, sisterhood, community, hope, history, running toward something.
inspired by Hannah Bradfield
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number 644
The people I choose to surround myself with, not taking things too seriously and the PG Tips monkey.
inspired by Annabelle Cole
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number 643
The freedom to express my passion whilst doing my family and hometown proud.
inspired by Christos Leo
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number 642
3/4 fat, 20% steel with a dash of smiles,
humour and partying like it’s 1999
inspired by Ruth Casey
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number 641
What makes me, me:
My belief that there is something other than the materiality of the body. I feel mostly me when involved within the communication process of making art. Thus opening up the possibility that myself as the maker, and potentially the viewer, may encounter a magical or spiritual moment of enlightenment of something previously unknown or unfelt.
inspired by Lisa Fielding-Smith
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number 640
I believe that each individual has a vibrational note/sound and that all of these notes form together to create a beautiful cosmic symphony. So at a most basic level I’m that note. I often think about the quality of “me” when I was about two years old. I know that is not me because the self evolves over time with experiences. But that note was at it’s clearly expressed at that time and will be my note for at least this life time. The more I practice, the more I feel I can express that note more clearly again.
inspired by Michelle Genders
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number 639
Genes, nature nurture. Atoms history.
Stuart Mel Wilson
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number 638
A combination of genetics and environment. And booze.
inspired Vincent Calenzo
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number 637
Reticence of voice. Always making or doing something, possibly as a foil to being found out. Dyslexia makes one learn how to hide in plain sight.
inspired by Soraya Smithson
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number 636
Music, tuna fish, painting, love, coffee, worry, writing, fresh plans, ideas of Africa, thoughts of SB, projected scenes, attempts to be kind and a good friend
inspired by Paul Anthony Ramsay
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number 635
The Other makes me.
inspired by Claudia Boese
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number 634
Scotsman, Northants and Barcelona, Humanist, Synaesthete, Deputy Principal Emeritus. Opera and Rugby fan, culture lover and walker. That’s my Twitter bio. Also I’m centre left politically, atheist and gay. LOVE colour, ceramics and textiles and glass….I could go on…
inspired by Charles Harper
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number 633
The long version takes 62 years, so I guess the short one will have to suffice 😊
I am similar to everyone else in that I’m a mixed bag of DNA, Experiences, beliefs and life force. As to what makes me, me in the unique sense, then I guess the above mixed bag is different to everyone else’s mixed bag. I artistic terms I make what only I can make from my mixed bag and couldn’t be say Picasso, on the other hand he couldn’t be me either…..
inspired Steve Sumner
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number 632
Rage tempered with a totally inappropriate sense of humour
inspired by Rose Davies
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number 631
Me? I’m a mixture, a big melting pot of everyone who is important to me. My family. They are in me. Added in is a good dose of artistic cravings; ever changing, always evolving, always needing satisfying.
inspired by Theresa Williams
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number 630
My story, my determination, my journey, to find the real me after a start in life which cast me as a replacement for someone I could never be (although I tried for a long time). Now in my 60’s I still have a way to go to find the real ‘me’.
inspired by Joani Miller
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number 629
All the things I’ve come through, my environment, books, nature, pets, my daughter.
inspired by Sue Goodall
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number 628
my smiles and tears,
my hopes and fears,
the good and the bad,
everything i’ve given away
and all the gifts i’ve had…
inspired by Adam Clement
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number 627
Being creative in a visual sense, and with the written word. A very large dose of humour, and being kind to everyone you know, and to those you meet in daily life. Absolutely love music, listening and playing. A love of animals, and trying to protect them worldwide.
inspired by Marcus Antony Billen
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number 626
Allowing ourselves to work with our mistakes, always looking for a new angle and continuing to be curious.
We bounce off each and try our best to work with our intuition.
inspired by Jairo and Nicola
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number 625
I am made by the spirit of challenge.
Life and Art get stuck and get over and over again.
inspired by Hiromitsu Kuroo
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number 624
Cigarettes and painting..
inspired by Greg Kurcewicz
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number 623
The people I love – sharing and breathing in the world alongside them.
(And Match of the Day with a brew)
inspired by Simon Brown
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number 622
My love of nature and a wicked sense of humour.
inspired by Martin Wills
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number 621
I feel that like everyone, I am a collection of billions of experiences and connections. Chance and biology make up a large part. I feel like an infinitely tiny blip in the scheme of things but if anything makes me me it is my impulse to create.
inspired by Rebecca Swainston
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number 620
Mmmm, I’m not my future nor am I my past what makes me me is the present.
inspired by Basin Banks
