Charles Eno #3

The image I chose was a sketch I did, my version of a drawing I'd seen a few years back and have been unable to find online since. The image is of someone, presumable a lady's side portrait, there's a series of swirls seemingly spawning from her mouth and connected by lines that lead to a larger group of swirls around what should be her hair. In the midst of these swirls in her head, there's a distinctly dark orb. The picture reflects several concepts connected to the idea of thoughts and speech or maintaining a balance between internal and external factors that shape who we are as people- in that sense, the swirls coming out of her mouth represent speech while those in her head represent her thoughts and ideas. The orb represents a core aspect of our thinking process, it can be considered the "brain" in the picture, responsible for producing the thoughts and ideas that the lady lets out into the world. In another sense, it can be said that the swirls around her mouth represent external concepts she's letting into her mind, and the distance of the dark orb shows how she's ignoring her own sense on intuition and opinion to what the world has to offer. This ties into why I believe its more accurate for the subject of the image to be a woman, because I believe women are more scrutinized by social objectives that force them to conform, not just by men but by other women, this in many ways stops them from realizing their true prospects as they struggle to conform to societies expectations and standards for beauty, personality traits and social positions- all of which are systematically imposed on them. However I should note that I don't believe women are the only ones who go through this, men in many ways struggle with conforming to social standards that define how we must compose ourselves, what we can and cant say due to fear of being emasculated by other men, in the process ignoring our sense of individuality.
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