Throughout all four years of highschool, I explored what it meant to live in this world as myself. I explored my identity through the eyes of society, my friends, and even my own eyes. This piece is a resolution of sorts to my four year search to find myself and my place in the world.

This piece was presumably the hardest piece for me to execute. Generally, I stick to mostly 2-D works of art but after making my 4 by 4 piece, I was inspired to work larger and make a full body version of that work. I have always enjoyed working on mirrors. For this piece there’s a total of 6 mirrors each painted with a different portion of my body in acrylic and oil paint. Each box, made out of plexiglass, was hand measured, cut and glued. The process of constructing the boxes was the hardest part, therefore I executed that part first. After trying several different methods, I chose to first glue the corners of the boxes with hot glue, then reinforcing the edges with clear silicone glue. Once the boxes were secure, I filled each box with monochromatic nature themed objects, LED lights, and objects that have meaning to me, to represent my growth in personality and finally blooming into the person that I have always wanted to be. Finally, I measured and cut out the mirror sides to fit each box and began painting. In a show setting, the piece is meant to be stacked in multiple ways and balanced by the viewer, to represent that no matter what order the pieces are in, I am still me through and through. The self portrait is almost life size but the proportions are slightly deformed as I did not include enough space for my legs. Some other faults are the project is slightly skewed and the glue is not as neat as it could be. This project is not perfect but neither am I; therefore, I am incredibly happy to have completed it, and to have completed four years at Dreyfoos.