It's been a while since I have encountered this feeling - the one that perhaps would make you alter the truth so it is "easier" on you to get through. Besides, it's only a signature image, and no one would really know what I was thinking, anyways. In all reality, it isn't that big of a deal. But this is just one of those things that I notice, or that I recognize. I... sometimes forget how honesty and courage are intertwined.
(^don't mind that, I was just thinking out loud)
Anyway
About my signature image... First thing, believe it or not, it is of a man, and not a woman. The hair is misleading, and the eyelashes in this shot are unneccesarily long, one could say. (which reminds me of my eariler years. For some reason, people liked pointing out that I had long eyelashes
). Secondly, the person is not dead, lol. (I know you didn't exactly say they were dead, Lady Luck, but I just wanted to clarify). The "frozen tear" - it's not really a tear, but it is actually a sort of reflection. In the original image, there is light of a sort coming from the left, and it happens to catch and illuminate the underside of his eyebrow and that area that you see with the icy blue color.
(looking back, the way the image is cropped, it does look as though it is a woman, so I don't blame you for assumtions)
Now, I suppose (for me), the real essence of this signature comes from what those words in the corner mean in correlation to the image. As I have already, um, spelled out, so to say... the phrase is "Transcend, and connect. Only by exceeding, and drawing closer, can we reach the higher levels". This originates from some of the things I've been thinking about lately, to put it lightly. For instance, think about those words in regards to love, or humankind in general.
Moving on... as I said, the correlation between those words and the image. I'll try to be brief. One could say that the character portrayed goes through a sort of transcendence, but that isn't exactly the reason I selected it. Actually, my creation of this signature, with that image, is slightly post modern, because I am taking an image that is already in existance, an image ... an image that already has its own unique meaning, yet I am taking that image and now placing my own meaning on it. And this meaning is something I've personally generated, so it is an interesting/odd sort of connection between the two, so to say. At its essence, the image represents the "base" of something, the very begining, the initial setting, the default. It appears at the beginning, it represents the beginning. And personally speaking, it represents "my beginning". In some ways that image (in my mind) represents my more essential nature, but on a greater scale (and more relating to the words in the corner), it represents all "essential nature" - as in, everyone's "beginning". One could also say it is about maturity, in one way. How we all are immatureand inexperienced at some point.
I think, generally, people need to "overcome themselves" in order to make real progress in life, as opposed to just being a function of your personality, and a product of your environment. (but then this sort of leads into a whole discussion about people, and what role they should play in the world, etc etc etc).
Anyways, (desparately) trying to stay on topic here, the image represents the beginning. Maybe to me it is a subconscious reminder of "who I am", because even though the signature talks about transcendence and such, you can't forget who you are, and more so, who you were. It's not about "forgeting", it's about building. I think that is an important thing (for me) to remember.
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Of course, one could, and probably has, looked at that image as a whole, and sees a woman looking sad or something. Are they wrong? Not neccesarily.
But that's how art, and life, goes. And I accept this. It's all open to interpretation.....
( <----- I think I like this icon a lot, for some reason)
). I slept until 8am, woke up 5 (as usual, hmm..............) 5 minutes before the phone rang, and someone left a message that wasn't for me, and then I drifted back to sleep.
