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BuddiesBy Naomi Lumanauw At the Getty Museum, we witnessed many types of self portraits: old and new, black and white and color, and abstract and representational. My self portrait is a picture of a picture on my phone of my best friend Taylor and me at the Getty Museum. On the screen, there is a reflection of me, the result of natural lighting. The mixture of the natural reflection and digital image shows us that technology does not fill our lives with materialistic items but actually connects people and friendships in many ways. I have known Taylor since we were in ninth grade. Our friendship has grown stronger due to the technology we have today. Our friendship started because of a group chat. Today, we are now able to talk to each other whenever and wherever. We always send each other funny pictures and videos and are always a phone call away. The composition of my self-portrait is deliberately casual, just like the kind of pictures Taylor and I share every day.
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