Process

While setting up this "social experiment," I debated between several reactions I was hoping to elicit. My usual profile pictures are primarily selfies with filters, candid solo photos, or semi-professionally shot portraits:

  

Occasionally, I would change my profile picture to support a cause or event that I advocated for, or a casual photo with at most two other close friends or immediately family members:

  
My current profile picture is a semi-professionally shot photo of my boyfriend and I: 

 

Overall, the often unconscious message I seem to portray to my profile viewers is that I am a rather reserved individual who cares a lot about aesthetics, usually only keeps a few very close friends, and is passionate about certain causes. I have never posted an ambiguous photo without context in the description box, much less an abstract artwork with potentially controversial themes. For this reason and also because September is the National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, I decided on a photograph I had recently shot for my digital photography course featuring a glass of blue pills.