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girl before a mirror [revisited] is a teach-myself-how-to-paint project.
I am teaching myself how to paint one self-portrait at a time, using as source imagery
the 1585 photographic self-portraits I amassed over a 7 year period, culminating in my
Master's thesis work girl before a mirror.
While the work began as not-so-much about painting as about the *idea that
I could learn to paint, it's near impossible to avoid falling into
the romantic trappings of painterly process - but this isn't all that
different from the romantic trappings of conceptual art, after all.
This project fits nicely amongst my other works, where process, repetition, methodical
practice, and endurance are defining elements.