My inquiry question was “How do we mask our true emotions in public and what are the psychological effects?” I, like many others, I find myself wearing a smile whether at school or with friends when I don’t necessarily feel happy. It’s easier to lie then be vulnerable in public. In my concentration, I wanted to show in each image the conflict between how the subject feels and what their face shows and the psychological consequences of fraudulence. In the first image, to anyone looking at the model, she is smiling, but what she herself sees in the mirror is someone unhappy looking back at her. I used photoshop and two distinct images to create this effect. In the next photo, I used a long shutter speed and moved the camera slightly to create a double exposure. This illustrates the feeling of having a second ghostly presence of one’s true emotion in the back of their mind although the subject disguises it. In the third image, I photoshopped tree branches into the subject’s portrait to represent the sadness growing inside their brain that is invisible to the plain eye. In the fourth image, a smiling photo of the subject is split down the middle to reveal a sadder, more honest image behind her disguise. In the fifth image, the subject’s ghostly presence has grown more prominent. In the sixth image, I overlaid trees on a portrait of the subject to represent her sadness creeping up. In the seventh image, the smiling photograph has moved to reveal the blankly expressed one again, but now, after having masked her true emotions for so long, she is broken. The eighth image shows the subject faint, blank, and confused. In image 9, I created a gestalt photograph to show an image similar to the first but fragmented and darker. In the final image, the model and her true emotions have become shattered as a result of dishonesty to herself.