Self-Portrait - Memento Mori

2019

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Birch wood, Acrylic paint, Alcohol inks

This is the face I see in the mirror every day, and yet it’s one of the hardest faces for me to get right. There’s a surreal quality to working on a likeness of yourself, whether a face or a part of a body.

One of my crazy ideas is to get a 3-D scan of my own skull in order to carve it.

This self-portrait was carved from a fresh birch log using chisels and hand tools.