During the process of this project I have learned many new things such as techniques, art styles, and display techniques. I learned an efficient and creative way to display my background and personality through a new art style, dry point block printing. I learned how to use particular carving tools such as the dry point etching tool to carve into the material to display my project. I used effective methods to get the ink deeper into the canvas, such as multiple rolls of the etching press or deeper cuts into the plastic holder for the ink. My plan was to effectively convey about my culture to a general audience and mix both my backgrounds into one look, specifically over my own body to show that it represents myself. My physic is that of a normal Egyptian male from the ancient Egyptian era not symbolizing anything in particular except artistic and design choice to better match the era I was trying to display. While working on this project I had much success with the planning and the initial drawing of the piece I was going to carve into the plastic. The original picture was high quality and well designed, with mixes of many different lines and a creative use of space to attract attention to the main figure of the piece. The carving of the lines was a bit harder since the lines were very closely tucked together naturally like the golden mask should be causing some lines to go off their course and causing many mistakes and restarts into new plastic. Overall my project was creatively based and showed what I can create with my given materials and how capable I am of conveying an idea. My final product did turn out generally how I wanted it to look, with everything in place correctly and orderly. There was some ink that leaked from one line to another in the head wear, but in the end that helped me in making it look more ancient matching the ancient Egyptian vibe. The plastic on my piece was taken off later which may have caused some modifications to happen to the print but nothing serious happened to my final piece. My original idea for this piece was a very similar concept but with more jewelry and accessories to go with the main figure. I had a disk necklace around his neck and golden bands around his biceps, as well as earrings. These are all pieces of Egyptian jewelry that would definitely be recognized by my audience as symbols of ancient Egyptian life, however I decided to remove them. I removed them because they both threw off the balance between my symbols, making it seem to based on Egypt and distancing itself from the path of Arab culture and because it didn't represent me properly either. In my religion males may not wear gold on their bodies, and showing that in my piece would make my piece lose personal value and make it harder for me to be able to relate to its meaning and background.

     My piece is similar to my inspiration in the head wear and general stance. Ancient Egyptian art always has a very stiff and still stance, and that is something displayed in the golden mask as well as in my piece. My piece is also similar in eyebrow shape and general facial expression, as the golden mask displays a very serious and still expression as well. My piece does differentiate from my inspiration however in all the additional things in my piece such as his mask and torso. There is also a big difference in medium, as mine is a dry point block print, while the golden mask is a solid gold mask, almost considered a statue. Another difference between my piece and my inspiration is color. Since my piece is made in ink block print it is a darker black and white, completely contrasting from my inspiration. My inspiration is painted many different colors with a base color of gold, such as darker blue, baby blue, and maroon. Since color didn't add any meaning to my project I decided to keep it dark in contrast, adding an older vibe to it as well, marching the time period I am trying to convey.