‘Living with the Enemy’ graphite on paper, 59x84cm.
A self portrait.
First attempt looking at myself. I wanted to focus on texture,sensation and exploratory touch to document the detachment between who I am and my physical self after various physical interventions/events. I wanted to illustrate scars that feel intensely private and which have altered my experience due to lost sensation and repulsion. I feel alien. Oddly writing this feels much more narcissistic than drawing it. Making this was unexpectedly comfortable and something I’d do again because it feels like a bit of a right of passage for figurative artists. I’m trying to avoid qualifying my thought process with this one so make of it what you will.