A face tells a lot about one's personality. By observing people's face, we can guess how they feel and what they think. A face is one of the key sources to understand each other.

It is a kind of irony that no one can see one's own face through one's own eyes. We can see our face only through other materials that reflect our face, for example a mirror, lens of a camera, or other person's eyes. In general, we believe that the very image that is reflected in these materials is our real face.

However, how can you be sure about this even thought you never saw your face in direct?

Self-Portrait

This fact can be one of the reasons that many painters have been interested in self-portraits. Historically, the tradition of self-portrait had been expanded since the Renaissance Humanism turned people's concerns from "God" to "human beings." By drawing self-portraits, painters try to look and understand themselves from their own perspectives. As a result, in some cases these drawings look like surrealistic or hyper realistic to other person's eyes.

Fortunately we have more opportunities to create our self-portraits than Renaissance painters had. Even though we are not talented in painting, thanks to diverse digital devices, we can make our own images.

Self.jpg: The right part and the left part of our face have different figures. It may have something to do with a brain. A brain is consisted of a right part and a left part, and each of them has different function. According to scientists, a left part of a brain controls rational aspects and a right part of a brain manages emotional aspects. These two parts are connected to other organs, including a face. I divided a pictue of my face into a right and a left side and exchanged each position.