Box #2:  This box is a self-portrait, using one of my past modeling photos. I chose this close-up photo because of the intense focus in my eye--to serve as a focal point of the piece. I layered my personal photo with another photo I took in Ireland this past summer--a photo of antique piano keys taken through the lens of a crystal. I think it nicely breaks up the linearity of the keys and creates a type of vortex arrangement around my face. I used Photoshop to integrate the two photos together. It's like a time capsule in bringing two photos together--connecting two images--like the past, present, and future combining into one plane. Then Roddy helped me print this on Mylar and I cut it up and collaged it with mirror paper. I painted this photo less than the previous one of Sam.