Self-Portrait Diptych

A diptych are two different photos mashed together that ties the photos as one to portray the artisit message.

In my desgin class I was assgined to create a diptych that portrays who I am. Before I went out to take my photos, I had to create an oxyomoron. An oyoxmoron are to words that contradict each other. For my oxymoron I used Broken-Unity, and created the images of something broken, and something that symbolize unity in my desgin sketchbook.I had to use a DSLR Cannon for this assgiment, and took about 130 photos with different compisitions, shadows, and angles of my oxymoron. after I took all my photos I had to chose the best photos out of all of the shots I took .

It had to be 30-60 photos ready for class by the end of the week; I finally choose the remaining photos I thought were good and went into class with those photos in mind. My In the Design my teacher asked all the students to find the best two photos that we can use for our diptych.After debating over, and over again I finally decided that my intertwined hands, and craked, angled phone were the perfect chocies for my diptych. I used photo shop to crop, enhanced, edit; add black and white background in the first photo; and finally combined the two photos together for my diptych.

Artist Statement

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 replinsion 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.