Self-Portraits as Someone Elses
Works on Paper
This is number 7 in the series of ten Conglomerates. Just as hands are an important part of human expression, so is the face. In this composition, I was thinking of a line from the Jim Carrey movie, The Mask. A psychologist was a guest on a talk show on television that Jim Carrey's character was watching and he said that "everyone wears masks," meaning that no one ever shows all of themselves, not even to those closest to them. These are all my face, but they represent the many facets and layers that every human being harbors within from a serial killer (under the right conditions) to someone who is afraid of everything and being just plain whacky.