Materials: pencils, book pages, paint, glue, textured paper and soft pastels. 

Measurements: 23cm x 31cm
With this Artwork, I wanted to communicate how both my creative and rational sides are important in my life. On the realistic side I wanted to show just me and the brick wall to represent the rational and how everything is black and white while thinking like that. But for the surrealistic side it's just me being free with the universe, and the books that are my comfort zone. I really liked working with the different types of pencils for my self portrait and I decided to keep with it for the background of the realistic side so it all would have the same color and energy. The collage was the easiest way of doing myself with books and I also chose the paint because I wanted to give this effect of universe/sunset. It relates to surrealism because its real things forming an imaginative universe that is impossible but at the same time incredible. I hope the viewers can see that a person can be influenced by two opposite sides in positive ways, and that both of them are unique and important in their own way. 

My self-portrait is heavily influenced by the work of one of my all-time favorite artists, James Turrell. There are two focal points within the artwork, the opening in the ceiling, revealing a bright blue sky, and the self-portrait itself; the skylight sheds light on a seemingly normal looking person, however, upon further examination it is clear that one side of the face is distorted. My hope was to create a surreal human being whose senses are amplified, and experiences the world much more vividly, exemplified through its multiple eyes and mouths. 

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I see the heart as an organ that is changing and growing spiritually,so the flowers represent that we are growing,healing and evolving. The flowers represent that we will heal and grow and we will shine again.Flowers represent such a beautiful part of nature, some flowers wither and we humans also lose our spark sometimes due to personal experiences and we become cruel with ourselves.I would like this painting to represent healing and growth in us humans that no matter what we have been through and all the dark times we have passed we will shine again. The portrait represents that we humans are healing and growing our hearts. The surrealist part I would represented with this quote “The sun will rise and we will shine again”-Jennae Cecelia