I had been considering doing a self-portrait for some time, but the idea of doing the traditional frontal view just seemed boring and did not fit with my other work. It was not until I was getting out of the shower one morning that the idea come to me. I was drying off and had just wrapped a towel around myself. I looked in the mirror and noticed that there was still water dripped down my back. I watched, oddly mesmerized, as the water finished dripping down onto the towel, and then looked up. I made eye contact with myself in the mirror in that position of slightly looking over my shoulder. It clicked. I knew that was to be my self- portrait. It was not planned or posed. It just happened, which is what my work is about. It is a realistic capturing of myself, doing nothing out of the ordinary, and being completely honest to the point of showing myself in such a vulnerable state – in the privacy of my own bathroom, clothed only in a towel.
"I See You"
Oil on wood
23"x18"
Framed