This piece was inspired by something I used to do as a child. When I was little, my nanny showed me how to make art with glue and colored sand. I wanted to do a reinvention of the traditional self-portrait by including an odd art technique from my childhood. I think I was successful in creating a unique type of self-portrait, unlike any other I have seen. The choice of media was obviously the big decision in this piece, but other things like getting the foreground and background to work together and creating an interesting composition came into play as well. I think that I will continue on with my idea of unconventional self-portraits for my concentration as it has worked out so far.
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