These paintings are the first two installments of a triptyque that I am creating for my portraiture class. I am interested in depicting the physical characteristics of mental illness and the emotional rollercoaster that the afflicted individual experiences. The subject or specimen of these paintings however, will go as far as to acquire animalistic or monster-like traits, depicting not what the outside world may percieve, but a self-projected image of the creature. These portraits portray the inner, psychotic, and abnormal condition of the mind via a physical and corporeal transformation. Through this series I wish to study the altering states that this human/monster hybrid experiences as her identity starts to bleed out.
