Final self portrait: "It's all in your head, it's all in my head"

Raquel Mendieta, Its all in my head, May 2017

      For my final self-portrait I decided to take on the idea of how the media controls the mind. We get fed CD's of information that tell us what is good and whats bad and it's like we don't even have a true conscience anymore. We rely on our surroundings to tell us but in reality the the business of tricking the consumers is whats keeping them in power. I used the CD's as a literal reference for the media and also a metaphor. The CD's represent how people become useless once we aren't able to better ourselves. They are slowly starting to become like VCR's: a thing of the past. Then the question of: What do we do with them afterwards? We take the information from them and use it with something better. The un-cracked CD at the top is the new wave of information that media is feeding us, while at the same time we also get attacked from it as well. It becomes no wonder people suffer from such anxiety and depression to look like and act like a certain way, because were scared of becoming useless.
    The black is supposed to be what happens when we let other's, real human beings, spread the consumerism. As a female especially, the idea of being consumer is something no one can control. We have to be the consumer of all lady products such as makeup and hair products. The part of being a consumer sounds as if we have the power to buy and not buy but it's not true, we become a slave to the advertisement. When someone wants to go beyond the spectrum of advertising, we get told there's something wrong with us. This brings me to the point of taking the statement, "it's all in your head" and use it to see something different then what we normally think of. We normally think that something is wrong with us and we use our mind to blame us for being curious. "Its all in your head" becomes an excuse for others to make you literally drive yourself crazy.