For the art project, after much reflection, I decided to do it on the two different sides of oxygen. Oxygen can be an angel in the sense that it is what we breathe and without it we would not be able to live. The bad side of oxygen is when it oxidizes us, it creates free radicals and an accumulation of these is catastrophic. It can cause us grave illnesses such as various forms of cancer, cardiovascular issues, and others over a prolonged period of time. If we do not consume enough antioxidants during our lifetime, free radicals will cause a bad effect to our body and one of these illnesses can be the cause of our death. Free radicals usually come as a result of actions from our daily routines, which do not seem to affect us negatively. If a person eats foods known to have antioxidants after exercising and other free radical producing actions on a daily basis, the evil effect of oxygen can be reversed. This is the message that I wanted to show and I believe I accomplished this fairly well. The "O" in the center is meant to represent oxygen, half was painted in blue and white to represent all the good oxygen can do and the other side was painted in black and red to represent the evil oxygen can do to us. I chose these colors because blue represents depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, confidence, intelligence, faith, and truth. The color blue is also known to have a calming effect on the human mind, which is beneficial to the body. This is very similar to the way breathing enables us to live everyday without being nervous about anything. I chose red because it represents war, danger, strength, power, and if often associated with blood shed. The evil side of oxygen speeds up the path to our inevitable deaths. The choice of the mirror as a base is there to represent everything we do not yet know about the effects of oxygen and which will eventually be discovered by new studies sometime in the near future. The back was colored half black and half white, the black side has a picture of a man getting older and a devilish pitchfork. On the other side we can find picture of a baby, fruits and vegetables. I also placed a picture of people exercising on the good side, which I realized now should actually be placed on the bad side because of its negative effect on us, unless of course we eat our veggies to counter the bad effect of oxygen.