“Self Portrait, Morning, Cell Phone” 24 × 18 inches, Crayon on paper
This is a handmade, original work of art NOT A PRINT and NOT AI GENERATED
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Waking up and checking my cell phone seems like such a small, ordinary thing. But the immediate way it pulls the world into my bedroom feels almost like a social problem. I'm still sitting on the bed, but my attention is already somewhere else.
This drawing is part of my “Self Directed” series. I'm using self-portraiture to explore my own life and the ordinary situations that say something about who I am. Here, that exploration centers on the boundary between a private room and the world I bring into it through a small screen.
The bowed head and the angle of my arms lead down toward the phone. Like a prayer? The pillows, headboard, and bedside lamp keep the setting familiar and domestic. There is a lot of activity in the marks themselves. Curving lines and overlapping hatching describe the body, while broader passages of shading establish the bedding and the space around me.
These self-portraits also give me a place to study anatomy and experiment with line. I'm thinking about how much a contour or a group of hatch marks can describe, and which of those marks I might leave visible in a painting. The act of looking at myself becomes part of the subject, even as the figure in the drawing is busy looking at something else.
“Self Portrait, Morning, Cell Phone” 24 × 18 inches, Crayon on paper
This is a handmade, original work of art NOT A PRINT and NOT AI GENERATED
FREE SHIPPING Shipping takes 3–4 Weeks This ships from San Carlos, California (The San Francisco Bay Area). I use UPS and sometimes US Post.
Waking up and checking my cell phone seems like such a small, ordinary thing. But the immediate way it pulls the world into my bedroom feels almost like a social problem. I'm still sitting on the bed, but my attention is already somewhere else.
This drawing is part of my “Self Directed” series. I'm using self-portraiture to explore my own life and the ordinary situations that say something about who I am. Here, that exploration centers on the boundary between a private room and the world I bring into it through a small screen.
The bowed head and the angle of my arms lead down toward the phone. Like a prayer? The pillows, headboard, and bedside lamp keep the setting familiar and domestic. There is a lot of activity in the marks themselves. Curving lines and overlapping hatching describe the body, while broader passages of shading establish the bedding and the space around me.
These self-portraits also give me a place to study anatomy and experiment with line. I'm thinking about how much a contour or a group of hatch marks can describe, and which of those marks I might leave visible in a painting. The act of looking at myself becomes part of the subject, even as the figure in the drawing is busy looking at something else.
