My 10 Year Old Perspective

My Diary- inspiration from Sophie Calle

It all started in the year 2007...

Sophie Calle approaches her projects by going about another's perspective. As illustrated in her video "On turning her life into art," she starting her art life when her boyfriend broke up with her through email, she asked other women how would they approach the situation. One can easily show an image of self from another's point of view by reacting towards what another says or does. For example, if you pick your booger and another looks at you in disgust, you would stop picking your booger in order to avoid getting looks of disgust from others. In this simple example, one was already influenced by another's reaction and possible insulting comments. Joanne Finkelstein pointed out how people became "self reflective" and developed "a visual imagination" in which they "trade places with others" and predict how certain scenarios might influence how they "think, act, or feel" (87). Using the example above about the booger, the individual who picked his/her nose would imagine his/herself in the shoes of the other and would predict how he or she might act if he or she saw someone else picking their boogers. This would influence how he or she acts next time.
As for my selfie, this was inspired by the video of turning life into art and manners. My selfie was my journal from 10 years ago. I figured what better way of going about another's perspective when I can do that with my 9 year old self. When I was 9 years old, I guess I was watching too many Disney movies that I chose to start writing a diary. In my diary I spoke about my teachers, my friends, and of course a crush. Throughout the years I kept writing and writing but I started fading off where the writing went from everyday to once a week to once a month to once a year and so on. As I look back, I noticed how innocent and different things were back then and how much I've changed as an individual. If one reads this journal (will most likely be when I die), he or she will notice the transition of growing up each year or couple years. One day I was like "O.M.G. he smiled at me" and in a few years I say "never going to trust again."
The connection is show easily through the events going on in this journal. If we go about my last sentence of my second paragraph, we will notice how because of someone breaking my heart a couple years ago, it influenced me to developed a wall to not trust another guy with my emotions. This simple connection can relate to many women out in the world and if they were to ever read this journal, my question would be...How would you have approached the situation?