OBSERVATION
I soon began to think that the Afghan girl's eyes reminded me of a scared child who's seen too much and holds some fear in her, but doesn't want to appear that way, so what I saw was a broken mirror. So I began drawing cracks like those you would find on an old, broken mirror. The original idea was to have a pair of eyes reflected on a broken mirror, but I didn't really like that idea, so I didn't stick with it. Instead, I thought to myself "how do we know when a mirror is broken?" I realised that we know it's broken because it looks broken, so I decided to try to reflect a broken look in eyes. Eyes are like mirrors, after all. However, I did not stick to this idea as eye realised that blinking reminds me of age, in an odd sort of way. The eyes start out wide and perky, like youths, then they go half-lidded, like a middle-aged adult, before finally closing, like a dead person. It's a very small metaphor which I turned into something big and that probably will confuse people
