In my self portrait, I choose music as a data to represent my growing personality with time. Therefore, I have created 4 remixes to indicate a different era in my life. I choose for each era to present 3 years, because I wanted to show my personality’s evolvement clearly. As the viewer plays the audios, he/she will start to notice that each period practically contains one to two types of music (Arabic & Pop > Less Arabic & Punk > Pop & Rock > Different verities of music ). I have also added some of my country music in the remixes to point out my arabic background. Moreover, the older the audios are, the more arabic music will be heard in the tracks to show the language transformation of my music. I think I started listening to English songs more often when I moved to Dubai and then to Toronto, which is clear in the last two tracks. Therefore, the audios show how I can be affected by my surroundings and by the cities I moved to in my life from change of my music. Furthermore, I have intended to make the tracks longer as they get newer, since my appreciation to music has increased. Finally, I chose my medium to be Audio, since I believe it is the better way to express feelings and save memories.
2000-2002
