The Illustrated Self: Ideas

I'm trying to think of the Illustrated Self brief as just like the Persons of Note brief, except I'm the person of note lmao. I feel like in that brief I got a good grasp of what I wanted to present and how this would represent the essence of the person I was working with. I think if I can do that again it would make my work more successful. I've been trying to think of how to represent myself, my concepts, my practice, ect and how I can present them in the most readable, exciting, playful way. I think I need to decide what's the most important facets of these parts of me, and also how I deem work successful and exciting and of good quality, so I can strive for this in my work.

Things I want to represent:

• my overwhelming passion and enthusiasm (for everything). I love things, I'm obsessed with things, I'm always wanting to get better and be the best in the things I love. I'm very over the top about things I'm interested in, they become a big part of me. this is why art is so important to me. I'm very romantic and indulgent, if I love something I'm kind of ridiculous about it. because of this, I love symbolism and poetry and I like my art to be embellished and dramatic and to show things in a more interesting way. 
• I value honestly/open emotions/sensitivity/sentimentality. I've always found the British culture of a stiff upper lip difficult to deal with because I'm so openly emotional and don't see it as weak. I'm very eager to actually have meaningful interactions and be myself very honestly and openly. I hate the culture of being too cool for things, not really caring about things or thinking it's embarrassing to show how you feel. I love expressing this is my work, I think embracing and celebrating life and everything you like about it is important. I think accepting and embracing your feelings is crucial, and being open about mental health is too. I try to just let this idea permeate my work, as to try and normalise it.
• I also value being selfish a lot, I feel there's a culture where looking after yourself first is a bad thing, which I find ridiculous. I value myself immensely, I think everyone should, I think everyone should love themselves and know themselves and be happy with themselves. again, this is a theme I like to have in my work, my work is sort of a reflection of my way of thinking about lots of things and me trying to just express those things when it's possible.
• I've recently identified (I think) maybe a reason why I love magic and mystery and nostalgia so much and why it's a theme I want in ALL my work. I had a conversation with Matt about why this kind of thing seems really popular with my age group, and why shows like stranger things are so popular. I really liked that conversation and that line of thinking. I think the reason why I like it so much is because it's reminiscent of childhood, when you don't know so much and everything is new to you. You experience everything for the first time, things don't make sense yet so they seem mysterious and magical, you have big expectations of what can be real. You see a film with magic or amazing places in it and you think that might be in real life. Anything is possible because you're not aware of the limits of real life and what does and doesn't exist, everything is just new and cool and wild. I remember as a child something I found really sad and disappointing was that humans have explored all of Earth. I was waiting for like somewhere new for all the cool things to be because I was sad that magic and weird monsters didn't exist. I like evoking that feeling again through world building and the vibe of my work, that there's some mystery or something undiscovered. 
• a bit less big and conceptual, but I love nature and I really want to include animals or nature in my piece. it's just something that I love to use as symbolism and visuals in my work.

so what's a simple way of saying these things. 

passion, appetite for life, openness, sensitivity, self love and self worth, childhood nostalgia, mystery, adventure, wildness, magic, the unknown.

how do I represent these things:

• fires, storms, crashing waves, people being overwhelmed by things (drowned in water, buried in earth, wrapped in fabrics). forests all alight, people ferociously eating things, hunger, consuming things. things splitting people open, crawling out of them, inflated, engorged, swollen. a happy greediness. buffets. food.  tsunamis and volcanos and hurricanes. 
• wild animals, aggressive animals, aggressive people. wolves, tigers, lions, dogs, boxers, gangs, snakes, sharks, crows, vultures. swarms of bugs.
• places full of secrets, mountains with caves n cabins and holes and eyes all over. trees with shadows. forests. hidden things, things that don't make sense, things in shadows and in pocket and behind hands.

this is all I have so far, I'm going to thumb nail and sketch and see what I can come up with. EDIT: I think this thinking is important, but one thing I want to keep in mind while making this work is to keep it FUN. critical thinking and working and analysing is good, but sometimes I feel my problem is getting too serious and bogged down and over working. KEEP IT FUN AND LIGHT. DON'T BE SO SERIOUS.