Rationale

The figurative artist that heavily inspired this piece was Javier Pacheco. Pacheco is an Italian artist, who takes strong influence from Japanese pop culture. I myself am also enamoured of Japanese pop culture, and my composition and chosen elements reflect this. As stated in my biography, I have always been a fan of video games and been more inclined towards cuter characters. I placed a number of these throughout my composition to enhance this. Whilst reflecting, I also realised that a lot of my hobbies growing up were often quite unusual and surprising to others. So I created an eclectic and busy composition to reflect this, and visually show my unusual personality traits. Overall, I feel my portrait is compelling, exciteful and is identifiable as me.