It is intriguing that you have chosen to render yourself using a part of yourself directly rather than just a reference of your appearance. By using your own hair you have allowed the viewer to learn a number of things- you prize your vibrantly red hair to the point of saving it after it is cut and perhaps to you it is the most important aspect of your appearance as you've chosen to use it as the sole material that defines you. It seems that we learn more about your personality than appearance, as the sculpture becomes a mask with such generalized features.
A number of questions arise- do you refer to your ethnicity through your hair? Why was it cut if it carries such personal importance? If I had never seen you I would wonder what you looked like now- was all of your hair sacrificed for the portrait? With eyes and nostrils poked deliberately and roughly into the face, do you mean to suggest that it is your hair that sets you apart from a world of generic faces? Do you intend for your viewers to see a hairball and interpret a grotesque portrait, or beautiful locks of red hair, flowing into a powerful portrait of race, personality and overall classically refined femininity?
It is intriguing that you have chosen to render yourself using a part of yourself directly rather than just a reference of your appearance. By using your own hair you have allowed the viewer to learn a number of things- you prize your vibrantly red hair to the point of saving it after it is cut and perhaps to you it is the most important aspect of your appearance as you've chosen to use it as the sole material that defines you. It seems that we learn more about your personality than appearance, as the sculpture becomes a mask with such generalized features.
ReplyDeleteA number of questions arise- do you refer to your ethnicity through your hair? Why was it cut if it carries such personal importance? If I had never seen you I would wonder what you looked like now- was all of your hair sacrificed for the portrait? With eyes and nostrils poked deliberately and roughly into the face, do you mean to suggest that it is your hair that sets you apart from a world of generic faces? Do you intend for your viewers to see a hairball and interpret a grotesque portrait, or beautiful locks of red hair, flowing into a powerful portrait of race, personality and overall classically refined femininity?