Self Portrait Series

My long term resolution for the New Year has been to 

confront my tendency toward harsh self criticism and to try 

to be more accepting of who I am and the skin I am in.

So far, I've done a series of photographic selfies, but my 

friend Shiloh, who always was and still is, smarter and more 

insightful than I am, suggested that maybe I should be 

looking at this as an art project, a la Frida Kahlo.

I contemplated that idea. It makes more sense than merely 

staring at mirror images of myself on a computer screen. I 

don't know that I will ever love photographs of myself. I 

don't know if I will ever be able to view myself without 

focusing on my flaws, but I can certainly confront and fight 

against that tendency in myself.

I picked out my first selfie of 2016 and tried to alter myself 

into art. If the standard of success is to obliterate most of 

myself from the piece, then I think I succeeded.

Still, it's a new slant on an only slightly older project. I am a 

work in progress. Long live vanity!