Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Our new integrated project brief, "where do we come from? what are we? where are we going?".

Firstly I thought about finding an angle of which to approach this project whether it be from a general evolutionary point of view, events in history that have led us to this point, such as war, famine, etc. But I came to realise my best angle would be to base it off my personal life so as I would have more of a connection to the work. I thought of looking into each question individually, answering them separately either in one large piece or 3 smaller pieces adding up to the one piece either by joining like a puzzle revealing a larger picture or just by being displayed together.

I plan to answer these questions personally with my own past experiences and goals for my own life. This way it is individual to me and no-one will have the exact same thing as me.

Where do we come from?
I have started to look into events in my life that have shaped me into who I am, parts of my past adding up to the "what am I?" section. I began by reading old diary entries from the beginning of my teen years (cringing all the way) and also looking into old family photo albums so. I want to look into photos from and of old friend groups I once had. I have looked into the idea of a time line of my life, marking out important events to me to show where I have grown from.

What are we?
I plan to use either a photo or drawing of myself covered in labels, things that I would define myself as but all added together make up me. Things like student, shop assistant, sister, daughter, weird, creative, artist, etc. This was the first and best way I could think of to describe what I am.

Where are we going?
This is the trickiest question for me as I do not have a plan for my future, what career I want to take, what specifically I want to do or have completed by a certain time. But I am looking deep within myself to find out where my life is heading. I want to place out goals that I hope to achieve, maybe look into a career using this project for motivation. I wanted to maybe continue the timeline on the other side of the "what are we" piece going maybe 10 years into the future and mark out goals onto it. But I also want to keep an element of the unknown in this piece because of how undecided my future is but I don't know how to create that yet...