Personal Metaphor

“I feel liked I am trapped in a hour glass and time is passing me by”. That is my personal metaphor. I choose this metaphor because this is how I feel with my high school years coming to an end that time is just passing me quickly. I feel trapped in this whirlwind of time that I don’t know how to get out our make it stop. I am trying to express how I feel about my life at this point of time. The mood I wanted to capture was more of a confused mood. Like what is going on? The reason for that is because that is how I feel, as far as time just passing by.

The composition I have is I have a bush to the left. I also have a little centered bush with a shadow in the middle. To the right I have my hour glass with me trapped in it. I tried to give it the feel of it floating in the air with a dusty feel. But the thing I did wrong was put my shadow in the wrong place. My image does feel unified to me; because I live in the desert and that is were my life takes place. Having the hour glass placed in that area made it feel closer to home, and were all my time is passing me by at. Some may feel it isn’t the right place for the hour glass but I do, because it’s apart of me.

I feel I did well on my hour glass. I liked how it appears I’m inside of it. I also liked how I made the sand a different color and how I changed it to make it appear that it is falling down. The difficult thing was really trying to find a great background for my h our glass. I feel maybe I could have done my background better maybe add better shadows to my hour glass. I would maybe change my background to a different desert setting and also the color of the sand.