Self Portrait in Lentil

a self portrait I constructed out of raw lentils. the piece focuses on the silhouette and aims to explore how much information is necessary to make sense of something; for the viewer to have to question if what they are looking at is something familiar or not. with this piece most viewers were unable to identify a face at first, but after being told by others that it is a portrait, they were able to immediately see the face. This piece perfectly reflected the cognitive phenomenon of experiential blindness.

left image is the reference, and right shows the beginning stages of experimentation