For my self-portrait I chose to use skin colored crayons. My hair has always covered most of the page in my previous self portraits simply because it is a big part of my Identity. My facial features are very prominent and realistic looking. I feel very confident in my skin and that is due to the self-esteem work I have done in the past couple of years. My body is a part of myself that I am still actively working on and that might be the reason I only choose to draw my face.

I Have read this book many time to my students. When I think about a box, I think about a container. Our lives are maintained in containers. We travel in a container to work (the train), we live a container, we store our supplies in a container. Living in NYC, I have found it difficult to find a home. This city is a place of constant movement and I find myself looking for peace and tranquillity. This project reinforced my need to move out of the city and find my forever home. A place where I can expand in way that feels comfortable to me and at my pace, not

the pace around me. It’s not a box, it’s my dream home!