Self Portrait

This is a self portrait of myself.  I used a real photo of myself that shows only my eyes and hair for two reasons.  This happens to be one of my favorite photos of myself, but it also represents my feelings about myself and how people see me.  My eyes are everyone's favorite feature, and they are always the same, whereas my hair is constantly changing (whether I dye it for the billionth time, or I chop it off or trim it).  The combination of something that will never change, and something that will always change in one photo of myself is a great reflection of my typical emotional state: always looking for change, but always clinging to the old.  The overlay on the photo is an abstracted floral design because I absolutely love to work with flowers in design, and science and illustrate them.  There are a couple less obvious images worked into the illustrations, and those are symbols from my favorite band, which had a huge hand in shaping me as a person and working through challenges in the last 5 years.  Altogether, the images blend into one big symbolization of what makes me, me.