I asked my model to pose in a gentle, demure way first - her social mask - and followed that up with a subtly different pose, now showing what she really felt.
Cast the first pose in clear casting resin and embed a pigmented cast of the second pose partly inside the first one. Would that work? Surely?
She does not hide her social face, naturally, but her real, inner face? She never ever shows it, probably not even to herself any more. All you can see of her inner self is her back, turned to the outside world. So sad.
And from this side only a vague silhouette shows, an uncomfortable silhouette. She must have tried to escape, once, when she was still much younger?
And by the way, I know we are taught to have neutral backgrounds for this kind of photo. I often do, when I feel like it. But why should I follow conventions if this way I can have contrast where I want it - like around the head - and patterns where I prefer those.
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