I Will Paint You | Episode 3 | The Painting.
We are time travelers. We move through time and space in a vehicle we call our bodies, and at the helm of this craft is our face. Whether aging with grace or etched with scars of tragedy, our face is the official travel log for our journey to the Now.
TWENTY FOUR YEARS 2015
Oil and acrylic on wood | 27″ x 24″
This portrait of Jonathan marks two time-points on a map of his trip into manhood. If the body regenerates cells every 7 years, he is 3 generations distant than the vessel that hosted his soul when he was 13. What has kept his sense of self? Is it in his eyes or his smile? What will happen in the next 24 years?
I’m a writer living in Los Angeles, making emojis of faces I find on Instagram. When I get a moment, I paint portraits on canvases I build from reclaimed wood.
