This work is my last response to the proverb collection. While being directly inspired by the widely known saying "you'd loose your head if it wasn't attached to your body/neck", the saying goes beyond the limits of the typical motherly cautionary warning. The proverb touches upon various aspects of the disassociation of the body and mind, the subconscious vs the conscious. "Loosing one's head" can be regarded as equivalent to loosing one's mind, or sanity- therefore the body can stand for the solid, rational entity that keeps the wondering mind, literally and metaphorically grounded. However neither the body or the mind, can survive without the other. Harmony is only achieved through a healthy symbiotic relationship between the two.

The self portrait expands on this division between the body and the mind by making use of complementary colours- as the hands are soaked in a bold electric red, the face is overpowered with an almost sickly, stale touch of green. This not only serves to enhance the contrasting ideas, but also reiterate the ongoing theme of metaphorical decapitation (present throughout most of my body of work) while using visual imagery to express the graphic proverb.