My portfolio is me, everything I am and it's everything I'm not. It's my weakness and my strengths. My self-confidence and esteem. My past, present, and most definitely my future. My portfolio is where I'm going. Where I've been, places I shouldn't have been, gone and shouldn't go. It's everything and just a book. It's my inspiration, my generation, and it's never finished, never done, always a work in progress. It's everything I've ever seen, heard, touched, smelled, sensed and believed, and my worst fears and all my hopes at the sametime. It's the beginning of the beginning, the end of an era and so much more than a phase. It's my portfolio, and describing it, is describing me.      -School of Visual Arts March 2007