This project is a statement that being weird is wonderful. Having been labelled as “weird” throughout my life, I reclaimed the term and transformed it into something positive and empowering. Through exploring personality theory and psychology, I examined my own characteristics. 

This project focused on deep and strategic thinking which I have represented through the game of chess, with a focus on the knight piece. My visual research focused on horse manes, tails and horse anatomy. I am drawn to the droopy nature of the horse mane and how it can move freely in the wind, this freedom contrasting the rigid nature of chess and its many rules.