Reverse Self-Portrait 

I am painting, I am writing, I am putting all my art, my knowledge, my emotions, my feelings, my ideas, my theories and all in my art output. I put all my emotions in and started painting a canvas, I missed painting a canvas, the cloth, its texture, its feel on fingers. I started using different materials as a way to express my emotions on the canvas.

I used Brushes to express my happiness and love, to show my appreciation of the movement of brushes, the subtle, the smooth, the sometimes-rough motion of my fingers painting with the brushes. I used Palette Knives to express my being scared and having trust issues, the sharp, the direct, the straight, the strong, the hard feeling of knives. I used Water to express my emotion of water in my eyes, the endless times of crying my heart out. I used Sponge to express various emotions such as my anxiety, my sadness, my annoyance the same emotions I feel when I use a sponge on a canvas. I used Cello Tape to express my emotions of being stuck and being captured, the sticky feeling, the borders, the small area. I used Random Pieces of Clothes to take excessive paint and water off expressing my attempt to take off my excessive temper, my confusion, my frustration, my anger and my suffering. All the materials used indicate some emotion that I have been feeling during this hard time that the world has been facing.

I am going to tell my story like many other artists around me. But it won’t be the same, it will be something that solely represents me and my story. But it will still have a place among the crowd, I will have viewers for my art just like many other artists around me.

Progress Images of the Portrait…