For Digital Imaging we were told to create a diptych that was a combination of our vector portrait and our digital painting projects, the image above was the final product for this project.

Artist Statement

The aspect that my diptych shows is the busyness of the thoughts in my mind, with each of my thoughts overlapping and fighting to see which one is prioritized. The left side of my diptych shows the exterior effects that take place as my thoughts battle, with many activities being started and never finished, while the right side of my diptych shows the interior battle that takes place inside of my mind, with thoughts constantly arguing and attacking one another all for the chance to be prioritized. I chose to show both the physical and mental in order to fully explain how my brain tends to work, constantly conflicting with itself and never allowing itself to work smoothly. Both images feature a background with scribbles to simulate the busyness that occurs in my mind, but my head is shown with darker scribbles around it to show how busy my mind is. The right side of the diptych features colorful triangles spread out in the background, memphis style, to display that the fighting is taking place in my imagination, rather than physically. Both sides of my diptych feature self-portraits of myself, with the left side being a more realistic side of me and how others see me, while the left side being the more stylized version of myself, to show how I see myself through my eyes. The left side of my diptych features many tools working on a self-portrait of myself, but none of the tasks being fully completed, to show how my mind doesn’t tend to prioritize a task over another. The right side of my diptych features my thoughts, as caricatures of myself, arguing and fighting with each other to convey the idea that my thoughts are always in conflict with one another, never being able to prioritize ideas. The right side of the diptych also features a background of colorful triangles and squares, known as memphis style, to convey my love and urge to create art. The visual approach I used in my diptych was a stylized/abstract approach because I felt that using my style was necessary in showing how I imagine my thoughts arguing with each other, while also showing a self-portrait of myself in a stylized manner to show how I imagine myself to look. The self-portrait of myself on the left side is an abstract version of myself to display the idea that others will see me differently, rather than everyone seeing me exactly the same.