As explained in class, "headless portrait" essentially just means you can't show a person's eyes, the "windows to the soul." So, again, I wanted to push the limits of the assignment and take "faceless" portraits without entirely cutting out the head.
I thought about Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," a portrait where the eyes are less captivating than another, more expressive feature of the face, Mona Lisa's famous smile. In Angelica's portraits, I chose to emphasize her own beautiful smile through the use of a compact make-up mirror.
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