self portrait 2: shedding my skin
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self portrait 2: shedding my skin
mixed media: painted on wood, acrylic paint, water color paint , paper, stamps
17" L x 19" h
2008
we all have "skin"/layers that form who we are. there are times when we closely wrap ourselves in these "skins" as a way to define, protect, entice, exhibit, etc., all aspects of who we are.
in this self portrait i show myself (in the main figure) totally naked...without my self protective layer...yet, there is still some hidden aspect as i am looking at the world (and the world is seeing me) through binoculars.....i can hid (behind them) and yet i can magnify what is "out there" in order to see more clearly.
the figure to the right is me, as i "shed my skin"....ready to be open to life's possibilities....yet, still slightly cautious.....hence the "sunglasses".
the figure to the left is me as i appear to myself , not closed, no need to hid, no "skin" to shed....open to all the myriad possibilities the world has in store for me.
i am sitting in my hand.....i control my life, my fate, my destiny......and even, i suppose.....how many layers i have/or need to have.
on exhibition at:
artdc gallery
5710 baltimore avenue
hyattsville, maryland 20781
12 december-4 january 2010
Flux
Arlington, VA.
18 April 2009
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th St, NW
Washington, DC
7 January - February 9 2009
jenniferbeinhacker.com
art outside the edge
self portrait 2: shedding my skin
click on "all sizes" above picture to see larger image.
self portrait 2: shedding my skin
mixed media: painted on wood, acrylic paint, water color paint , paper, stamps
17" L x 19" h
2008
we all have "skin"/layers that form who we are. there are times when we closely wrap ourselves in these "skins" as a way to define, protect, entice, exhibit, etc., all aspects of who we are.
in this self portrait i show myself (in the main figure) totally naked...without my self protective layer...yet, there is still some hidden aspect as i am looking at the world (and the world is seeing me) through binoculars.....i can hid (behind them) and yet i can magnify what is "out there" in order to see more clearly.
the figure to the right is me, as i "shed my skin"....ready to be open to life's possibilities....yet, still slightly cautious.....hence the "sunglasses".
the figure to the left is me as i appear to myself , not closed, no need to hid, no "skin" to shed....open to all the myriad possibilities the world has in store for me.
i am sitting in my hand.....i control my life, my fate, my destiny......and even, i suppose.....how many layers i have/or need to have.
on exhibition at:
artdc gallery
5710 baltimore avenue
hyattsville, maryland 20781
12 december-4 january 2010
Flux
Arlington, VA.
18 April 2009
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th St, NW
Washington, DC
7 January - February 9 2009
jenniferbeinhacker.com
art outside the edge