#23

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

How you present yourself to the world-- be it visually or verbally. You construct and maintain your identity daily by how you dress and how you speak and respond in any given situation. It;s almost a kind of branding process. I think that social media provides a good summary of this branding information. For instance, on Facebook you can see what images a person wants to be represented through, what their interests are, how they spend their time and who they spend it with, what they think is funny and how they respond and communicate with other people.

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.


I suppose this connects with a lot of the ideas in the questions above, but there are many outside influences that help to construct how we want to present ourselves. The values we value, the environment we live/grew up in and the people and ideas that we admire are just a few contributing factors.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.


A combination of controllable and uncontrollable factors. Personal preferences in decoration. The purpose a space needs to serve. 
Functionality.

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?


I think the real aspects would be how everything actually is. As for constructed/fabricated, I think of all the times I might overanalyze or misinterpret a situation.

5. Describe a narrative tableaux that you might create to be captured by a photograph. A narrative tableaux can be defined as “Several human actors play out scenes from everyday life, history, myth or the fantasy of the direction artist” ( Constructed Realities: The Art of Staged Photography Edited by Michael Kohler , 34).

6. Describe an idea for a photograph that includes a miniature stage or still life. A description of such an image is “The tableaux reconstructs events as in the narrative tableaux, but in miniaturized format, using dolls and other toy objects” (Kohler, 34).


I think that it would be interesting to recreate a famous movie scene this way. You could do all sorts of scenes this way, depending on what materials you are using. I think it would work well as a series.