Another in my week long series of detailed portraits from the last few years. This one is of a dental hygienist where I get my teeth worked on. She is much prettier than this photo shows since I manipulated it extensively to bring out all the details of her skin texture.
We had a fire drill where I worked and as we all gathered in this little outdoor area I was up close to a woman I hadn’t met before. I introduced myself and she told me where she worked in the building. I noticed when she was gesturing that she had this great scar on her arm. I had my camera with me and asked her if I could take some photos of her eyes and her scar for a collage. She was very excited about the idea, much more so than most people and graciously allowed me to do so. I am sure any number of people around me were wondering what the heck we were doing.
She later saw the collage and loved it, purchasing 2 prints to have framed and given to her family. She had grown up hating the scar but in recent years had come to see it as a good part of her body and life. The collage was a sort of confirmation of that she thought.