This was one of my earlier personal projects. At the time, I wanted to create something that felt meaningful to me while also improving my technical skills, especially in facial anatomy.

This piece started from my interest in how a person’s identity can feel fragmented, inconsistent, or incomplete. I was curious about what would happen if I broke apart something as familiar as a human face, and how that would change the way viewers understood the image.

I began by constructing the top and bottom blocks of the head. Then, I sketched geometric shapes for the facial features in between to fit into. I experimented with spacing, alignment, and separation to create a sense of disconnection and instability while still keeping the face recognizable. I also limited the color palette so that the subject would stand out clearly against the background. Throughout the process, I kept testing how much distortion I could add before the figure became too difficult to recognize.

This project taught me that abstraction and structure can exist in the same piece. Even though the image is built from separated and distorted parts, it still needed a clear structure to hold everything together. It helped me understand that breaking something apart can sometimes make viewers pay more attention to how it is put together.