“Shadow Conversations”, 2023 - 2024
In many of my projects I use documentary methods such as conducting interviews. Usually these interviews inspire particular works and act as a starting point, reflected in the artwork partially or obliquely. In the case of the drawing sessions I am fusing the documentary element and the creation of the piece itself. During the shadow portrait painting, I asked a person a question that I posed many times before: “When did you first feel that you live in history?” Their answers located their individual lives in a larger narrative. Each portrait session took thirty minutes to an hour, during which I painted a watercolor portrait of a visitor’s shadow.
