"My Family Roots"
"Nose Trunk"
Artist Statement- For the two images above I took selfies of myself and put a picture of a tree that I took on my face. I either made the tree line upwards on my face, or I turned it sideways to flow into my hair. For the first picture, I titled it My family roots because at my face is the trunk of the tree which is like all the relatives(the branches) coming together to make me. For the second picture I titled it Nose Trunk because the tree trunk is on my nose. The second picture is just an extra double exposure that I did. But the stronger one is the first. For the first image, I want people to think about the photo, and I want people to follow the branches throughout my hair and face. I want people to try and figure out the meaning of the photo with the given title. For the second photo I chose the tree trunk to be on the nose because positionally it makes sense. For that photo I want people to feel happy and goofy because my nose is a tree trunk. I really like the first photo and I think that it is stronger then the selfie collage that I did in the beginning of the year because I took my time and positioned everything, and blended and smoothed things out. In the selfie collage, I just threw pictures on the canvas and called it good. I really like these photos because it took me a lot of time, but I think I did a good job with the edges by making them clear to where my face ends.