Final Piece Idea

I have experimented with portraiture, ink backgrounds, rastafarian symbolism and the form of my piece, which has lead me to a clear image of what I would like to achieve in my final piece. At first I began with the idea of a portrait with attention mainly on the hair, in which I wished for it to have dreadlocks, male or female. I then decided to create a self portrait, as my life has been intensely inspired by the Rastafarian culture. I believe in the religion, but I do not practice what I believe in, although I plan to travel whilst immersing myself in the religion completely. In the future I wish to have dreadlocks, to show openly what I believe in, so I chose to group the ends of my hair, in my experiment sketches, to give the illusion of dreadlocks.
The idea I had for the form of my final piece was, to begin with, the basic square the wooden board  is cut in. This would have prevented me from stepping outside of the box by having subtle and obvious statements of culture writhing my piece. I experimented with removing a piece from the composition, in the shape of Africa, but this made it difficult to draw most attention to the portrait, so I considered making the board itself into the shape of Africa. To do this I created the ink background I decided to do, and quickly sketched the portrait towards the left. After I cut out the shape and this looked very effective. It gave the illusion of me being in Africa, which correctly shows my ancestry.

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