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Blind Vision: A Junior Self-Portrait Diptych by Cayley Ho (2013)

The left side of my diptych represents vision. I held glasses up to the camera lens to make the background, the vision poster, look distorted. I chose to distort the background because it represents not always being able to see clearly. My poem is about how you cannot predict the future and how you’re not always going to know which decisions will be the best for you in the future. I wanted to relate the inability to see the future to the distortion of my image through glasses.

The right side of my diptych can either represent a seemingly positive event that turns out to be a negative one or a seemingly negative event that turns out to be a positive one. I painted half of an apple black and photographed it under low lighting to represent how things may seem bad at first glance. However what seems bad at first could turn out to be something good, as represented by the red that shows under the light. It could also be flipped to mean that what might seem to be a good apple, or a positive event, could end up to be poisonous, represented by the black that I painted onto the apple.

My two photos go together because they both convey how things may not always be what they seem. The distortion of my first image and the easily exchangeable meanings of my second image represent how the future is very unpredictable and cannot be foreseen.
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