I admire this digital piece, because it takes the idea of contemporary portraiture and goes beyond that. When we think of words, we do not think of them being on the face of an individual. When we think of words, we think of newspapers or books or something you can physically look at tot read. When I see this portrait, I think of the idea of being able to read someone's emotions, but this piece goes beyond that concept. The piece presents the idea of putting an individuals every single thought/opinion and putting it onto their face for all to physically see. This piece portrays physically being able to read an individual's mind (since that is not possible, this piece is exploring that concept). This piece is great, because the artist not only focused greatly on the placement of specific texts and the text sizes, but the artist also focused on the values of the hues of specific texts and words in order to make the portrait as a whole appear to be more and ore realistic. There is a huge contrast of the text/face and the black, which allows the portrait to appear to be even more realistic and creates an emphasis on the words (they do not blend in to a lighter background). The words jump out at you and grab your attention. I also think the piece holds a lot of conceptual meaning, because selected words are bigger in size than others. Words/phrases such as "Beautiful, look into and open your" are larger than some of the other text. I also think the concept of the sunglasses is a great addition, because it is as if the subject is taking off the sunglasses to reveal herself and who she really is. The fading of the words/phrases that create the illusion of the sunglasses also adds onto this idea, The words/phrases of the sunglasses are not as interpretable, yet the words/phrases that create the portrait/subject are. This is one
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