All Consuming Images...

I know that this blog is late but at least I get to post it anyway.

So I got around to reading Steven Ewen's(a.k.a. my professor himself) book All Consuming Images and he talks about the topic of "image". In the required reading that the class is required to do, we were suppose to read the first three sections of the book. It talks about the definition of style, how it forms, and what it means to several individuals in their own life experience.

There were a lot of point of views from Hunter College students that Ewen had class back in the late 1990s. When reading some of their explanations on style, I also had the same feelings too except for the ones who really care about appearance. Some of the readings I read about talk about if style is important for who you are or because everyone else is doing it. To me, style can come in any form as long as its you and not a copy of someone else. For example, there was a time a few years ago when the old style of bellbottoms came to life once again for a short time and my sister was addicted to it. I was simply looking at her new look with distaste and wonder why she must go to on to become a monkey, by monkey I mean "Monkey see, monkey do." It didn't look that great and of course I was right when I said to myself that it wouldn't last for so long which it did.

I can see how style can affect people's self esteem, some want to appear confident while others question what style is to them and others blend in with their surrounding environment. In the end, everyone, even me, are still finding out what our identity or what style were choosing.