Blah blah blah, here's my art piece that I made ages ago, about change and self recognition. The point of this was mostly in the process of making it: I started off this self portrait without looking at any photos of myself or a mirror, I wanted to paint what I thought was me, half way through that process, I decided to introduce a mirror so I can paint over what I thought about myself. Doing this allowed me to see literally in person how different I am from what I thought I was, I saw myself for me, I was prettier and more feminine, I actually liked how I really looked, and that gave me a new understanding of how I look like and I became more confident since doing it. I leave the face unfinished because I'm still growing, and learning, I feel like I have a lot of development I need to go through, I write over my face, a rant like text, it's meant to be me talking about my past struggles and traumas, and I wrote it in Cypriot Greek, one of my native languages, because I grew up in Cyprus, and live in the UK (ew) now, the use of the language was also kinda meant to reference where most of this happened, it symbolises home, but troubled. The colour pallet is kinda not natural at all, which I feel represents my feelings of being out of place in general in society but especially here in the UK, as I stand out so much I feel like. Also it's kinda giving deep underwater, like as if I'm suffocating or like a dead corpse floating in the water. The red firey hair symbolises the love and passion growing inside me for greatness and abundance. One final thing, the self portrait is facing directly at you and at me when I was making her, to confront that what is Infront of her.
