Charcoal Portraits (2017)
A series of three charcoal portraits created during high school as part of my IB Visual Arts curriculum. This was one of my earliest explorations into the intersection of psychology and art: an attempt to examine how personality shifts with mood and circumstance, and how internal states shape external identity.
Each piece was designed to provoke a personal response in the viewer. Distortion became a visual metaphor for the manipulation individuals experience as they grow, adapt, or fracture under life’s pressures. Beneath the façade of a “sane” human lies a more complex, layered self.
This project marked the beginning of a deeper inquiry into self-perception, and the synergy between my two long-standing passions: social psychology and artistic expression.