The Mountain You Are is a web exhibition, made as my Bachelor of Arts final project, exploring the mountain as a metaphor for the authentic self. Like a mountain, we seem stable and fundamentally unchanged. Yet every major turn changes us. It does not necessarily have to be negative; with change comes significant growth.
Through personal experiences and elements, the project examines themes of solitude, stability, and self-discovery after loss. This Practice-as-Research project investigates how digital media can embody philosophical concepts of selfhood and endurance.
TMYA aims to investigate how the mountain journey, structured as a three-act narrative (base, summit, descent), can figuratively express the narrative identity transformation following a major negative life event, in the artist’s personal case, loss.
Grounded in Paul Ricoeur's concept of ipse identity (selfhood through change) and Gustav Freytag’s Dramatic Pyramid (Equilibrium, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution), the project employs practice-as-research methodology to explore how we remain ourselves while fundamentally transforming.
