Living In My Mind

Living Inside My Head:... more

by Sonia Ighalo

Title

Living In My Mind

Artist

Sonia Ighalo

Medium

Pastel - Pastels

Description

Living Inside My Head:

Everything we search for has always been thought to live outside of ourselves, when it's always lived inside of us, everything we are in search of, need, and want can be obtained from within.
1) I sketched a big head on a pad first. It's my process of rough draft, revised rough draft, and finally Final Piece.
2) I looked up the solar system to make sure I had my planets aligned semi right.(Its my head)
3) I wanted the colors to have striking contrast in relation to each other.
4) The eye is my eye reminding myself that I am my own judge, no one can judge harder than self.
)The Earth in the mouth area resembles that it has it's limitations in relation to the other free floating planets.
3) If you meditate the black hole(pink) is the pineal gland which can lead wherever I want to go, after first passing the other planets in gaining knowledge.
4) The scales are a reminder to remain balanced in all areas wherever my journey leads me.
I split the face in two using sky blue and the other half a midnight blue, representing the ever changing thought processes. The two parts of our personality.

Red was the color I selected to surround my own mind, inside my head I have a choice, good or bad,(freewill)

Outside my head, the red means I can only control what I can control. The various spinning vortexes, are for the times when life spins out of control but it's small is you notice, to represent that it will pass and we come out and resume our journey.

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November 8th, 2017