In my sustained investigation I explored my face blindness and face processing issues through my art.

 

I began my investigation trying to capture the structure of my face without a reference, a challenge for me since I have no recollection of my own features. Then, using acrylics and heavily integrating watercolors, I expressed the idea that faces can belong to different people but still appear to have identical features to me. I continued to use my own face as a model, trying to recreate my features multiple times in one piece, still without reference.  Eventually, I broke faces down into artistic quadrants and decided to leave the markers on the face. Then, I decided to distort those well-marked faces, to represent the warped faces that I sometimes see. Modeled off the facial sameness established in pieces two and three, I created pieces where features within a face blend together to ultimately become nearly featureless, such as in pieces eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. Finally, my work evolved from featureless and blurred faces into a completely deconstructed representation of a human face. This represents how I memorize features individually, and not a whole face.