Projects
girl before a mirror [revisited] | 2004-ongoing | acrylic paint on canvas board
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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 seven-year period, culminating in my Master's thesis work girl before a mirror.
While the work began not-so-much about painting as about the *idea that I could learn to paint, it is practically impossible to avoid falling into the romantic trappings of painterly process - which 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.