Charcoal on paper, 300 mm x 400 mm
Category: Finding JLW
I am curious as to why artists do self-portraits. After putting it into practice, I realize it is an exercise in psychological self-exploration. Unlike facing a model, I face up to my questions myself whilst creating or recreating the image. Instead of painting an accurate likeness, I choose to explore the projection of who I want to be or not want to be, mingled with endless curiosity, doubt, joy, skepticism, pride, fear, desire, freedom and so on… I find the process provides me with an opportunity to face myself with more honesty and veracity.
My Jaw & My Crown 02
Charcoal on paper, 300 mm x 400 mm
My Jaw & My Crown 01
Charcoal on paper, 300 mm x 400 mm
Cachée Ombre
Charcoal on paper, 400 mm x 300 mm. Influenced by Yanis Marshall’s choreography, capturing the sensation of the dance – face down with the loving.
Penumbra 08
Charcoal on paper, 300 mm x 400 mm
Penumbra 07
Charcoal on paper, 300 mm x 400 mm
Gai Ombre -1
Charcoal on paper, 300 mm x 400 mm. The joy and contentedness of bathing in a drip of light, which traces its way through a stretched torso, spreading the web of shadow wherever it does not touch.
Jeter une Ombre -2
Charcoal on paper, 400 mm x 300 mm. Admiring the mystery in the shadow cast by our body movement. The darkest strokes anchored at the turning contour along the torso cast the shadow as it stretches its limbs further, in a more desaturated and more twisted form.
Gai Ombre -2
Charcoal on paper, 300 mm x 400 mm. The joy and contentedness of bathing in a drip of light, which traces its way through a stretched torso, spreading the web of shadow wherever it does not touch.
Jeter une Ombre -1
Charcoal on paper, 400 mm x 300 mm. Admiring the mystery in the shadow cast by our body movement. The darkest strokes anchored at the turning contour along the torso cast the shadow as it stretches its limbs further, in a more desaturated and more twisted form.
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