Christ in The Head
Andrea Cann
April 12, 2006

	The subject that is presented in my artwork continues on with a theme of Christianity that has been broken up into three parts: Christ in the head, hand and heart. This work, being Christ in The Head, looks into the struggle that I faced with aspects of society, but ultimately myself, when coming to an acceptance of the belief of Christ. 
	With this work I continued working with acrylics to gain strength with the medium, and to find different ways of using the it, as this artwork has an overall different look than the other in the series. I enjoy experimenting with different mediums during in my process, which brought me to incorporating other things like glue and marker in the work. I found this scale to be considerably comfortable to work at, which I thought may bring more success to the painting. Looking at it now, I'd rather see the end result at a much larger scale, as it would just make more of an impact, and potentially be more visually interesting.
	During my process I didn't face many struggles as I took on the entire things as an experiment, and would for the most part enjoy coming up with ways of working with any problems I had. Overall I feel that I learned to be a little braver with this work, and just let myself go as an artist. With the nudity that is a part of this work, I feel I have, in a sense, made myself somewhat vulnerable, however, this is appropriate with the theme of the painting, as I'm featured in a considerably vulnerable position.
	This final work intends to communicate the coming into a belief of Christ and the new found pressures or societal burdens that can go along with it. At this point I felt I had found something as a Christian, I had a belief in my head, but I wasn't strong enough to go anywhere further with that belief. My body was still somewhere with pressure that was confusing me and in a sense going against my new beliefs or trying to prove them wrong.  The work is supposed to initially portray a struggle in choosing what you have somewhat of a belief in or something that it seems is more accepted by others. The self that I have featured in the painting is torn between two things.