With this art piece I wanted to show the emotions and body movement that people do when they are shy. As a shy person myself, I revert to wrapping my arms around my stomach while curling my body forward to scoop myself into a ball. The reason why the individual is in the corner, is to show how one wants to be isolated from others. It is gives you a sense of security that may be taken away.
The hard exterior of the bust represents what we show the world, that we are tough and can handle anything. The interior of the bust shows what we truly feel under out hard exterior, that we are soft and broken with jumbled emotions. The interior is littered with four different colors, each representing a different emotion that we hold inside. Red is love, yellow is happiness, blue is sadness, and green is envy. We hold these emotions and a myriad of others deep inside because we don’t wish to show our vulnerability.
My face is covered with different places in England that I hold dear to my heart. Theses places are where I have family, traveled to, or have a deep desire to see. I wanted to show how England is more my home in my heart, more than my actual home in the United States. I have a deep connection to the country because of my parents and all family members being British. The dots are to unify the face and the background together.