720 Emiko Wake

number 720
What makes me as myself is insight and optimism.
inspired by Emiko Wake
What Makes You You? Each answer acts as an inspiration for me to create a unique digital image.
number 720
What makes me as myself is insight and optimism.
inspired by Emiko Wake
number 719
Music, stories and a little chaos
inspired by Sian Watson Taylor
number 718
I am shade and shine. I am my voice, a quiet power, like the sea. I am ven-ergy. I am me.
inspired by Sinead Smyth
number 717
none linearity and obsession
inspired by Jo Berry
number 716
I am cautious and caring, and sometimes a little bit impatient. My journey so far has taught me the importance of authenticity, and a good sense of humour. I see nature as my anchor, and I thrive whenever I am able to explore. Every day is a new day.
inspired by Michelle-Ann De Coeyere
number 715
I sometimes imagine if we have a invisible filter built in our mind. The filter is made out of what we’re born with, experience in early/formative years, our heritage & upbringing, etc… expanding with ongoing life experiences. We face outside influences everyday, but I believe what’s coming through this internal special filter, makes me me.
inspired by Yoko Isami
number 714
Purpose
inspired by Dr Martin Glynn
number 713
Beaming energy, undefeatable joie de vivre; having no fear; seeing a goal while bypassing the obstacles.
inspired by Tate Osten
number 712
I guess Time, Place & Experiences. & Relationships but they probably come under experiences. Time – growing up, being around for as long as I have! Place – has provided an environment & location and everything both filters through & creates the experiences which is what makes me/me! Not sure if that’s what you’re after?
inspired by Bill Heard
number 711
A constant cloud of rumination, coupled with the knowledge that I don’t know everything I think should know.
inspired by Ben Cope
number 710
A very well hidden commitment to helping people, caring for people, equality, compassion and a love of animals.
inspired by Zenon Gradkowski
number 709
I’m not quite sure what to say…but, being both artistic and scientific at the same time makes me, me …I don’t see a real difference…in my mind they are both the same.
inspired by Jackie Tunnicliffe
number 708
The biggest factor in my life I think that has made me who I am has been my lack of confidence in myself, stemmed from childhood of being abused no way a child ever should and re-enforced by my parents telling me to stay put of sight and unheard alone in my room because I was an embarrassment. This of course lent me to another to a world of imagination, drawing and painting, and be resourceful. I could escape in story. For years as an adult I held the belief that I am not good enough for a career or love or friend ship. Leading me to push others away, lie about myself and not try hard to achieve because I would just fail anyway. I still don’t like to be touched if I don’t trust the person. These days I have learnt how to talk to people more, I have been in a relationship for a number of years now. I have been building up practice in drawing and painting again. It was the thing I wanted to be doing but never could because of self doubt. I think most of all what makes me the person who I am is my imagination and my resourcefulness.
inspired by Anthony Osman
number 707
The distant place,
Lofty and secure destiny—
Snow all year round —
Streams of meltwater,
Running past the mother’s feet,
There she bathed,
Cover me with afterbirth.
Cold springs,
Wrapped around me,
My cry,
Fall to,
Stone crevices at the bottom of mountain streams and deep pools.
On the swaddle of the world,
Embroidered with fire and camellia,
Hung with silver bells,
Twinkling like a star.
Can’t wrap up the night,
Listen,
It is the forbidden glare,
I use “Hello! Say goodbye.
A path with ferns,
Often collapsed,
Lust,
A pastoral hidden in the monsoon.
In its purest form,
Scattered by the soil in the wind,
However,
My shape remains the same,
I’m good for nothing.
As a result,
Cold soul,
Gradually plump in the forgotten.
inspired by Xi Guanlei
number 706
I am a collection of material with ‘potential’. My base substance is formed from parental genetic material plus any congenital anomalies. Thereafter, social and environmental conditions (experiences, events, things witnessed) become inscribed on my psyche and determine my behaviours/psychological rules for living. One is not conscious of what the developing mind sublimates – which raises the question, how far are thoughts and actions one’s own or the product of structural influences? I feel that I am largely shaped by the temporal context, which can be unnerving because it’s difficult to describe who you are, but it does enables me to be responsive and to develop. I acknowledge that there is no deep identity truth that I have to identify with but rather an unbearable truth that I have to learn to live with:- the ‘big Other’, a void (it is explained differently by various philosophers, psychologists, theoreticians). Ethel Adnan said, “Your identity is your prison”. Being human (having a conscience) comes with consequences.
inspired by Anne Stansfield
number 705
“WE are not our thoughts and WE are not our feelings…” Cause, we’re not.
inspired by Tom Splitt
number 704
Art
inspired by Alyson Hunter
number 703
Perhaps J.L. Borges ‘the garden of forking paths’ as a starter on that, given the nature of the medium through which we’re communicating.
inspired by Om Lekha
number 702
There may be a very quick, simple answer. I could just say my neural pathways are what make me me.
inspired by Mark Rathmell
number 701
My genetic make up… and having an indigenous family in California to relate to and friends in the arts.
inspired by Ricardo Duffy
number 700
Each of us was born in the primeval soup, evolved and are linked to all the creatures and tribes on earth and probably beyond. Yet we are all unique within that commonality. That is what I celebrate and wish to communicate that is what makes me, me.
inspired by Maz Jackson
number 699
Being an artist.
inspired by Helen Owen
number 698
My writing: ’Come Back To Me Then Go Away’ tangent books
inspired by Gerry King
number 697
I believe creativity is everywhere in everything I love being on this planet I have a family I cherish belong with and along with this the arts this is my salvation.
inspired by Veronica Milsted
number 696
I would like to say my essence, which remains the same, but also my life experiences. In parts I have crawled through darkness and have finally found the light and the immense joy of being a mother, artist, teacher and lover.
inspired by Mimi Katuschka
number 695
The way I respond to the world is through natural pattern formation; the way I see things is through this lens.
inspired by Molly Tufnell
number 694
What makes me/me is the culmination of my experiences with the world outside and the world inside. A constant flow of information, choices, decisions, feelings and human nature. The balancing of what I interact with that is outside of myself and how I react internally and also externally to that interaction.
inspired by Aillia Fuego
number 693
Going to art college allows you to talk yourself into things I find. So three decades later, I’ve been to business school studied marketing, economics and statistics and worked in data science but painting has kept me looking at the world. It has kept me in the present. It’s now time to get more balance in my life more painting and less working. I love ‘working’ putting my mind to things.
I lost my sight through stress a couple of times, it all came back thankfully. The ophthalmologist said you can see colours most people can’t see, it’s rare. That’s a good reason to do more painting.
I hope that will do, I’m a man of few words. You see my output not what I drone on about.
inspired by Tim Waskett
number 692
May sound a bit crap but I have had a lot of life tragedy that could have made me get out of life. So my wife and kids have made me/ me.
Teign Ginger Bread Man
number 691
I am over anxious, try to be kind. Honest to a fault and expect the same of others. I am hypersensitive and have a deep sense of faith in something unknown.
inspired by Julie Lawrence