SELF
Identity is like a perpetual construction site. To some degree we invent the self, cultivate it, mine its raw materials, assemble our identities from found parts and inheritance. These portraits are a meditation on and at times a feverish, fugue-like imagining of possibilities. What are our antecedents? What hidden power, magic or juju runs through us? What forces, perhaps millennia old, pulse beneath the surface?
Self Portrait as Prince of the Tribe of Levi Embodied by Vishnu (detail), oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 24
Self Portrait as Prince of the Tribe of Levi Embodied by Vishnu, oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 24
Self Portrait as Prince of the Tribe of Levi Embodied by Vishnu (detail), oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 24
Self Portrait (Multiplicity), acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16. This piece can be hung in any direction.
Self Portrait (Multiplicity—detail), acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16
Self Portrait in Bomber Jacket, oil on linen, 20 x 16. This portrait is built on top of 7 or 8 layers of other portrait versions, all of which are documented!
Self Portrait as Prince of the Tribe of Levi, No. 1, oil on canvas, 30 x 24
Self Portrait as Prince of the Tribe of Levi, No. 1 (detail), oil on canvas, 30 x 24
Self Portrait as Prince of the Tribe of Levi, No. 2, oil on canvas, 30 x 24
Self Portrait with Poison Oak, oil on linen, 24 x 16
Self Portrait with Poison Oak (detail), oil on linen, 24 x 16