For the past 9 weeks I have been working on this on going project for my special topics class. I have very much enjoyed working on this project, and it is my favorite project to date. It all started out with me being extremely interested in surreal art. The definition of surreal is: having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic. So I dug deep into my brain, and pulled out something weird and freaky, but personal at the same time
I have always been extremely insecure, especially when it comes to my face. And most of that comes from when I was growing up certain members of my family would always put me down, and I never felt good enough for them. But as I got older and grew into some more confidence, I started looking at my face and tried to find the one thing that I did like about it. And that happened to be my lips. I hold a lot of my emotions in my lips, when I'm sad, when I'm happy, and when I'm just being my kooky self.
So for this project I took those two ideas in mind. I started taking portraits of people and taking them into Photoshop and editing off their eyes, and nose leaving their mouths alone. When ever people look at a photograph of a person, they automatically go to the eyes, and my images, the eyes are completely eliminated. And the results were this
