The message I hope to convey with this piece is my love for light and dark and the clash they bring. The first layer is a picture I took during fall, where how I portrayed myself really surrounded my bright orange hair. The Second layer, the cat, is my cat ironically named snowflake. I just thought his pose was really dynamic. The third layer, the ant, is a little bit of Ann Arbor that I wanted to put into the piece. The ant mural is my favorite part of A2! The final layer is the fireworks I saw last august in a small town in Yamanashi, Japan when visiting family. I was aiming for a balance of the dark pictures I chose and the brightness of my eyes and the fireworks, and I hope thats visible in the final piece.