REFLECTION POINT 2 & FURTHER
Reflection Point
I have a linkedin profile picture.
Providing that linkedin is more related to professional profiles, most of the material and information I enclosed refer to my job (I am CIO in a private company).
However, 6 years ago I enclosed a picture and never changed it.
When I selected the picture, my choice fell on one image of myself in the Dubai's desert: I am happy, with a camera in my hands.
I believe that this portrait does not hide who I am, or, better, does not show a false image of myself. I am assertive, I smile when I am happy, I don't when I am not. I smile because I am happy in that place with my camera.
However, even if my entire profile relates about my profession, the picture relates about my passion. Could it mean that I would like to switch from one profession to another?
Which portrait identifies me most?
Is there a meaning in the fact that I did not change this profile picture until now? Maybe because it shows me during an happy moment, and 6 years younger.
If I were to construct a more "accurate" portrait of myself, I believe I would select all picture where I am with the people I love and the props that tell about my passions: photography, music, ski. But I am getting old, so I believe that I should avoid ski-pictures.
Could it mean that I should avoid pictures where I am not in the perfect situation? Do I select only "happy" and "perfect" pictures or I am simply afraid of getting old?
This reflection point pushes me to reflect not only own my identity, but even on what I believe about profile pictures. Do most profile pictures describe who we are or what we like to show we are? Is this why sometimes we watch profile pictures where people do not smile (too frivolous) and look concentrated on something (serious, professional)?
Is it a matter of pose only?
This is another interesting cue: the profile picture of myself has been taken during a trip to an exotic place. The setting suggests that I was in holidays, so it does not connote my identity with my birth or living land.
Everything drives to a happy context, as if my life, myself, have always been, and always will be, happy.
Pointing out that this is just a profile picture in a professional & social media site, I ended up thinking that a more complete set of pictures that profile/document the "real me" should include some images that show where I work and where I live, while I am working and living.
When I studied "Express Your Vision" I dedicated a lot of work to the Exercise on the Square Mile:
I went back to it and found one sentence that expresses well the meaning I gave to my "square mile":
"....On july 20th I got out of my house with the fixed idea to delay as much as possible the use of the camera and answer to a question instead: “… what do I want to express through my photograps?”.
When I selected the picture, my choice fell on one image of myself in the Dubai's desert: I am happy, with a camera in my hands.
I believe that this portrait does not hide who I am, or, better, does not show a false image of myself. I am assertive, I smile when I am happy, I don't when I am not. I smile because I am happy in that place with my camera.
However, even if my entire profile relates about my profession, the picture relates about my passion. Could it mean that I would like to switch from one profession to another?
Which portrait identifies me most?
Is there a meaning in the fact that I did not change this profile picture until now? Maybe because it shows me during an happy moment, and 6 years younger.
If I were to construct a more "accurate" portrait of myself, I believe I would select all picture where I am with the people I love and the props that tell about my passions: photography, music, ski. But I am getting old, so I believe that I should avoid ski-pictures.
Could it mean that I should avoid pictures where I am not in the perfect situation? Do I select only "happy" and "perfect" pictures or I am simply afraid of getting old?
This reflection point pushes me to reflect not only own my identity, but even on what I believe about profile pictures. Do most profile pictures describe who we are or what we like to show we are? Is this why sometimes we watch profile pictures where people do not smile (too frivolous) and look concentrated on something (serious, professional)?
Is it a matter of pose only?
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| Identity and Place, Text Book, CGPH4IAP240117, 2015 Edition, Page 14 |
This is another interesting cue: the profile picture of myself has been taken during a trip to an exotic place. The setting suggests that I was in holidays, so it does not connote my identity with my birth or living land.
Everything drives to a happy context, as if my life, myself, have always been, and always will be, happy.
Pointing out that this is just a profile picture in a professional & social media site, I ended up thinking that a more complete set of pictures that profile/document the "real me" should include some images that show where I work and where I live, while I am working and living.
When I studied "Express Your Vision" I dedicated a lot of work to the Exercise on the Square Mile:
I went back to it and found one sentence that expresses well the meaning I gave to my "square mile":
"....On july 20th I got out of my house with the fixed idea to delay as much as possible the use of the camera and answer to a question instead: “… what do I want to express through my photograps?”.
I answered: “… express the melancholy of living in a beautiful place and being witness of its slow decadence”. ....".