Your courage is striking and because of it your works are raw, and it is only through this rare courage that we are able to see the wide range of human emotions displayed so truthfully. Thank you for your bravery and honesty as these days it is unfortunately so rare, and I’m delightfully honored you added me as a contact.
“I have just moved to England where I am studying art full time. To cope with the dreary fact that it always rains here, I have decided to make self portraits everyday. This is an ironic and improbable project for me as I loathe photographs of myself.
I’ve decided to embrace this fear of “being caught looking ugly” by exploring how I might look to a camera. What are all the different expressions I have? Is my double chin always noticable? Am I as graceful as I sometimes feel? What do I look like when I yawn? Sleep? Leap? How often do I look like someone’s mother? (I’m childless.) Where do my wrinkles go when I am sleeping? What does how I move say about who I am? When do I look my worst? When do I look my worst but feel beautiful? When do I look like how I actually feel?
Exuberance is the name of the game. We can’t take ourselves too seriously, can we?
