Simulated Texture Self-Portrait

OK, so I'm in a 2-D Design class and we do a wide variety of projects. Some of them are actually really cool and turn out suprisingly well.

This one really suprised me. I had no idea what i was doing and was not into it at all at first. But once it started coming together, i got more excited about it and now the final product is actually framed. :)

So, it had to be a self-portrait, collage, using xeroxed textures, rubbings of textures, text used as texture, and hand drawn textures. Plus it had to "reveal" something about yourself. I love flowers so i did the entire thing of textures of flowers-real and fake.

There wasn't anyone around when i started so i had to take a pic of myself-

Then I took SeVERAL trips to Kinko's and spent at least a couple hours there getting different textures by pressing flowers and petals and stems and leaves on the glass and copying it and messing around with the value and intesity options.

Then i had to Map it out and kind of outline what i was going to do. Then i had to choose what textures i'd use for each part etc.

Then the cutting began....

This is my normally very clean room that ended up extremly messy. This isn't even the worst point. These pics i took standing on my bed and looking down (the top is on the right side of my bed and the pic below is on the left :)
Anyway, after what took about 15-20 hours of xeroxing, planning, cutting, pasting, moving around etc, this is what I got in the end.