SELF
PORTRAIT

Self Portrait uses framing, surface, and gesture to stage the fluctuating nature of identity. The piece poses the question of construction of the self. How propositions and images form our concepted and percieved self.

The painting holds tension between revelation and withholding. What is shown is shaped by angle, light, and the decisions that structure how a figure enters view.

As a self-portrait, the work asks what it means to look at oneself through material and composition, and how an image can function as evidence, mask, and artifact at once.