Art Description (What inspired you to create the artwork?) Duality builds off previous works of women and the female experience. Duality is a concept surrounding the battle and struggle with mental illness and inner demons. I’ve personally struggled with both my whole life and had to find a balance between a state of neutrality and giving into those darker thoughts. The face is split into two to show connectivity and two halves of a whole but with differences. The piece explores while something may look put together and normal enough on the front, in the back or side may be lingering darkness under the surface. I enjoy working a lot with the female figure and the female body but I had yet to do many pieces with the female face in a black and white tattoo inspired style. Between the split in the heads is a large black and white smoke cloud and black tendrils showing the two pieces are connected by a mutual sticky, black darkness.