50 Shades of Figuring Out Who You Are. Trying to figure out who you are isn't an easy thing. The barbed wire and thorns in the background represent the difficult journey to figure out who we are. Many LGBTQ kids go through a lot to find who they are, and showing it isn't the easiest. Many feel like they are being suppressed and not able to really show who they are. The beautiful flowers symbolize each of our potential to bloom and become what we are meant to be. I believe we are all destined to be and contribute different things to the world. We are all phenomenas. This is a photograph of my friend in a conceptual setting created to show both the difficulty of becoming individuals and the potential.