For this project, we had to create a pair, this could be light vers dark, life vers death, etc. For this, I wanted to play with the idea of self-identity and how one views themselves. I used my own hand for this project and took a simple picture of the hand against a mirror at an angle that showed both the “real” hand and the “reflected” hand. I mostly used vine, willow, and white charcoal on the left side of the composition. Then on the right, I used ink wash, graphite pencils, and darker pencils. I tried to create a lot of detail and movement with the shawl in the reflection, but I should have tried to make some of the shadows/backgrounds a bit darker to create more contrast, and I really should have played around with and practice trying to create light glares on the right side so that it was easier to tell that that was supposed to be what was seen inside the mirror and that it wasn’t just two different hands against each other, but rather one hand but two different views.

I went through a lot of different ideas before I landed on just using hands and just changed the medium and background of the two different sides.