Self Identity

 The saying that the eyes are the windows to the soul has its own truths, out of all of the human features, they by far show the most of an emotion expression, even just slightly altering them can dramatically change somebodies appearance. So focusing on the eyes it will be beneficial to showing the emotions throughout the project.

During the process of my, self-identity, and looking into my own emotions, I used a selection of different mediums, between dry and wet media such as paint, ink, charcoal and conte and used them to emphasize the emotions behind the image.

For instance, in the first piece, I used a print of a skeleton and a darker selection of colours, once again to emphasize the emotion, also by collaging extracts from books, newspapers and magazines, which I believed where dark or sad to correspond to the idea behind the skeleton, underlining the negative emotions.

By centralising the composition of the figure, o find it keeps the focus on the main image, bringing more of a focus to the eyes mainly, and the detail in the face and skull.

I had the same idea for the next image, collaging different excerpts from newspapers and magazines I thought would adapt to the focus of the subject such as smoke, fire, news extracts with negative stories and sad dogs.  I once again centralised the image to keep focus on the eyes.

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