Originally, I wanted to have an interactive porfolio where a person could step inside my mind by listening to the audio first. The user would then hover over the main image to take a journey and select pieces of the main image that would take them different places in my portfolio. I don't have the necessary skils at this time to create that though.
I have a professional portfolio. The link is listed in my footer. I have always done what is expected of me. For this portfolio design, I wanted someone to really get to know who I am as a designer and as a person. I feel so disconnected with the outside world. It seems that everyone is just a statistic or a number. Employers scroll through hundreds if not thousands of portfolios every day and I wanted to be intentionally different for this one. No one cares about digging deeper or making "real" connections anymore.
My depression, my anxiety, my disability is a huge part of who I am. I have found that out more by putting this portfolio together than anything else. I am at the age now where being intentional in everything I do means leaving a legacy, not just being someone's number or statistic. I want an employer that wants to hire someone with an overall creative passion, not just a quick professional one. If my resume just happens to be one of those thousands thrown away, then for me, that employer wasn't meant to be.
My hope is that people can begin going "against the norm" and becoming their "own Van Gogh" which means that art is in the eye of the beholder and so is an artist's professionalism. It cannot be contained and is always changing. It's never constant.
Dare to be different despite what society thinks of you or how contained society wants you to be as an artist. The world is your canvas and you are the paint brush. New trends and processes are created every day by artists who challenge the status quo. Life is definitely a journey, so please don't waste it. Tomorrow you might not wake up. Will you be happy with the art you chose to create or will you just be another number or statistic?