Self Portrait, 1999. 7" x 10". acrylic on canvas paper.
Another self portrait I did while in High School. I had a mustard yellow dress shirt I bought at a thrift store and wore it nearly every week. I did so many self portraits during this time in school that after some dumb thing I had done to make my mother royally cross with me she exclaimed, "I've never seen someone so involved with themselves! Look at all these damn narcissistic portraits!" or something like that... This was a difficult (as difficult as a suburban white male thinks they can have I suppose) time in my life. I constantly fought with my father and mother so I guess my escape was to turn inward on myself and I painted in a manner that suited that.
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