Mixed Media Self Portrait
Title: Feelings out of Reach
Size: 45 by 60 cm
Medium: Oil and acrylic paint, rhinestones, felt flowers
Completion: June 2021
Size: 45 by 60 cm
Medium: Oil and acrylic paint, rhinestones, felt flowers
Completion: June 2021
Exhibition Text:
Feelings out of Reach is a self portrait capitalizing on its Baroque inspiration combined with a modern addition of artificial flowers and rhinestones to represent apathy and disconnection from one's feelings. The splayed red and white flowers fill the bottom of the canvas like they were dropped from the subject's hands, and in addition to the represented feelings being dropped, their falseness also further emphasizes a lack of true emotion from the subject.