AmandaD

Unmask the real me. This project ment a lot to me. I know it’s just a mask. But the meaning behind how I designed it was special to me. I did this project with the theme of the Army, for many different reasons. It did take me a long time to decide what to do it on. But when I finally decided to do the Army everything started coming together. My brother is in the Army and he is leaving for Afghanistan on the 17th of January. I myself am going into the Army as well. I leave when I graduate and am going in to be a M.P. I will come back and be a police officer. I wanted to do this project on something that I was close to. Everything I do is for the Army now. That is my one goal in life. I’ve spent the last 3 years trying to get my life back on track. Now that I finally have, I’m doing everything in power to not slip back into my old habits. I’ve done so many things in my life that I am not proud of and I know I have done many things to dissapoint my family. I want more then anything in the world to make them, and myself, proud. To do that, I need to graduate on time. Sometimes its hard for me to stay motivated but looking at this mask hanging in my room everyday will remind me that I need to keep moving to get where I want. This is a choice that I made a long time ago, but I never told anyone about it. Well, very few people. So doing this project opened up peoples eyes on what I am really doing with my life after I graduate. That is why I chose to do what I did with my mask. During the making of my mask, I had to decide what to put my mask on. Whether I would be a window, or a piece of wood, or even just a piece of cardboard. I wanted this to look nice so I figured the window would be my best bet. The mask itself didn’t take too long. The only thing I really had to think about for the mask was what quote to put on it. The window took the most time and effort. I decided that I wanted to put a tank on my window. I didn’t know whether I was going to draw it right on the window. Or make it out of glass or some other object. It was one of the last things I did because I couldn’t make up my mind. I finally drew it on there. I had a lot of decisions to make but none of them were really hard to think about. Everything kind of came right to me. And onto the window. I didn’t do much thinking., but this is something I plan on keeping for the rest of my life so I’m glad I took the time to think carefully about the things that I did. Overall I’m pretty happy about how it turned out. I am upset about a few tings and there are a few things I think I could have done a lot better. Like my tank for example. While I was drawing it. I thought for sure I was going to love it. I thought it was going to look great. I got done. Looked at it a few days later. And no I hate it. I wish I could take it off but of course I cant. I’m not very happy with the flag I painted on the background of the window. I think it could have looked a lot better. When people look at it they say I did such a good job. And it looks amazing. But I would have to disagree. I know my abilities and I know I could have done a lot better. I am happy with it. I will keep it forever. It has a lot of special meaning to me. I just think it could have been better.