Self Portrait

If you've ever heard the saying, "you can take the girl out of the _________, but you can't take the _________ out of the girl" then you will understand the concept of even though you change something about the place your in or what you do it never really changes your true nature. With aspects of identity I choose to depict that very saying within the image. No matter how far away I go from the northern Adirondacks I don't lose what I've learned from growing up on the shores of the lakes and in the mountains. Our lives are changing all the time, graduating from high school, then college, going on to start something new, all of these milestones change where we are and what were doing but they don't change who a person is. Some people, like myself, really care about where they came from and grew up, how it effected their family life and continues to effect who they are now. To go back to my version of that popular saying; you can take the girl out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the girl.