final post

Girl Looking Crooked, 2018

The subject of my image, Girl Looking Crooked, is to show the viewers how crooked my back is. The content of my image is me, my scoliosis, and a few things that represent me. I made the choices that led to my composition because I wanted to use an image where I could show my back. Since the woman in the image Grande Odalisque is fully naked, I saw the opportunity to represent myself in that image. So, I chose all the images I wanted to represent in my artwork and I photoshopped it onto Grande Odalisque's image. My work is a collage and I can compare it to Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's piece. This image will probably confuse the audience at first because it is a cluster of different things, but once I explain what it means, people will understand. My first self-portrait was a painting of the two places I am from, and that represented me and how I travel to Spain every year to see my entire family. My second self-portrait is more of a physical image of myself. This self-portrait portrays the things I experience throughout life. The influence in these changes is to show my audience that I am not as perfect as I seem. Everyone has something wrong with them whether its mentally or physically.

The picture matching the flowers was unintentional, but it worked. I wanted to use my spine, but it didn't look as well as my friends. I relate to my friend because we both suffer through back pains and our clothing not fitting properly. The snakes represent what my friends call me and the flowers represent me being happy about my body.