"Most people don't know that I have done self portraits most
of my life. In the past years, I have done one on my birthday every year to
mark changes in my self, my thoughts, my techniques, and just generally to
journal time in the mirror. It's a little vulnerable to put some of these up on
the Internet, I must say. Not many artists show work from when they were young
(and not very skilled!). But when I looked through them all, I realized there
were a lot of changes, and those things are worth showing, I guess. Being broke
for all of those years, a self- portrait was my way of being curious about form
and drawing, without wasting anybody else's time. I was not a born draughtsman,
as you can see. I worked very hard, and
fought through a lot of my issues with drawing with dozens upon dozens of
sketchbooks filled with horrifying sketches.
I didn't paint any
self-portraits while I was 23-25, due to my time in Italy studying, and frankly
being too enamored with everything around me to care about a mirror. 31 was a
strange year. The painting I did for a self-portrait was not in fact this one,
but it may as well have been.
The one all the way at the bottom is my most recent
portrait, "32". I finished it September 1st, 2012. Thanks for
looking! Enjoy!"
(Source www.miabergeron.com )
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