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A story of a wound: A Junior Self-Portrait Diptych by Rocio Robles (2013)

I wanted to demonstrate with the intertwined hands how I repair myself from my broken spirit. I wanted to show that I’m not that easily broken from society, yet I need bonds to replenish myself from the negativity that was forced on me by my past conflicts. I wanted to portray with the cracked phone that I may look reachable to some people in society but really they don’t know how I really am in the inside. I wanted to convey that I’m not as strong like others, I’m very fragile, and can break easily. Which I don’t personally tell to anyone. The cracked phone demonstrates my inner personality of how I feel sometimes when I was conflicted by many struggling experiences throughout my life. In my personal poem I was inspired from the line ''save the broken glass little dove'' for my diptych. To demonstrate my oxymoron how broken unity could be portrayed as, I needed find an image that I could take with the line I used from my poem. I wanted to show to my viewers the side of me that I would not personally show to anyone.

I took 30-60 shots with the same phone , with different backgrounds and angles, I wanted my second photo to be simple yet dramatic to portray my statement of broken, and how it feels to be broken. I used photoshop to crop and increase the brightness in the the photo. As for unity I was going to use a different photo with hands that that are aligned in a circle, but it was too overexposed so I decided to use a different image with the same idea in mind of the hands. At the end this photo in the right came out like I wanted, in photoshop I made the background black and white to emphasis the lighting on the hands. I kept the little cuts on the fingers to unify my whole image, I wanted to tie the metaphor together from my poem line ''save the broken glass, little dove.'' to portray how I can be saved from my broken spirit that was cause by negativity from society.
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