Innocent Troublemaker: A Junior Self-Portrait Diptych by Richa Gopal (2013)

My oxymoron is ''innocent troublemaker'' I thought of something that was clearly innocent visually. So I used a pink teacup set on concrete. I chose to put it on concrete so then there wouldn’t be any distractions in the background. And for the other half of the picture. I used a deck of cards scattered and handcuffs over a joker card. I had Made everything but the joker face black and white to emphasize the Joker. Without it people would just see cards and handcuffs and think of something else. I wanted to emphasize the joker because its mainly innocence versus troublemaker, which joker is. I felt they went together well because visually you would see tea sets in a little girls room. And cards and handcuffs as you get older, like running into trouble. Visually i was trying to show the obvious difference between being young and being a teen.