Alt Name: Feb ‘22 self-portrait Description: I spent a week of February dedicated to painting self-portraits. The week in world events was catastrophic. I documented my reaction as the week progressed. From police fatality to war, the feeling of grief stunted artistic expression. Synthesizing personal identity, overwhelming emotion, and political ideas in a representative way felt counter-productive to reality. Objective truth and self-righteousness were two themes I settled on and were tangibly expressed in self-representations. 1440 × 1538