SELF-PORTRAIT PROJECT

The Art House, an art coop out of Brooklyn, NY (www.arthousecoop.com), runs weekly free art projects that anyone can participate in. In order to support these efforts, a self-portrait project was offered. For a small fee, a 4x4 mounted canvas was mailed to entrants on which we were to make a self-portrait. It gets mailed back and goes on display at the Brooklyn Art Library.

I used a piece of screen painted fabric for the background, adding a silhouette made out of a scrap of painted paper. I added various watch faces, gears and spring, bus token and key, meant to represent the wound-to-tight chaos that often occurs in my brain.