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Artist Monica Valdez
North Hollywood, California USA
Self-Portrait
Mixed Media
Artist Statement
Self-Portrait is a painting of a moment of reflection, meditation, and realization. Here, I portray one’s inner workings melting into their surroundings. There are three partial grounds to this piece: one is the foreground, which includes the figure and the gears, the second is the wallpaper, and the third is the wood grain panel. There is something unraveling as the boundaries of each layer dissolve; each layer flows within each other, and becomes part of the next. As the figure becomes part of the wallpaper, the wallpaper becomes part of the wood grain panel. There is a unity between one’s self, and everything surrounding this figure. This figure is portrayed in a moment of deep thought, and at the same time, realizing that she is as much of this world as the world is of one’s self.
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