My thesis is about how one making themselves into a fictional character — to then put into a story, wether already existing or made up — can prove immensely beneficial psychologically, meaning that it allows for gaining better insight on oneself and a chance to self-reflect on who it is they are, as well as understanding the things that have made them the person they are today. This is based on what I have done myself, having created a spin-off of Inglourious basterds to put myself in — and while it started out as something I did just for fun, it slowly became an analysis on my life and who I then was as a person. It helped straighten out my inner turmoil, both the aware and unaware kind, finally being able to categorize it, give it a name and even turn it into characters to study the way my self-insert fictional character interacted with them, which painted a clear image of how and why I functioned the way I did then.
My grad project is about what I have done for my thesis, both the topic and the text plus image combination I used to illustrate it — but mainly the latter, since this has been a great part of my (visual) practice the past years at the academy, and primarily on the internet, where my practice originated from thanks to Instagram’s post format.
