Big Self-Portrait, acrylic on canvas (believe it or not!) 1968
String 1983 hand made paper collage
Self Portrait 1997 Oil on Canvas
- Is there more to yourself than your mirror allows you to see?
- Perspective: Do your eyes see differently than the eyes of other people?
- How does your identity change over time?
- Do you have one broad identity, or are their many individual elements building your identity?
- How do you recognize yourself?
- How do we learn who we are?
- How do we remember who we are?
- How important is it to know yourself?
- How do you rediscover yourself?
I honestly find coming up with these questions pretty challenging. Chuck Close suffers from a disorder called Prosopagnosia; he literally has trouble remembering what his own face and other people's faces looks like. Very sadly, he is now confined to a weal chair due to suffering a terrible seizure when his spinal artery collapsed. His self portraits move me though. They seem very personal.
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