I love portraiture. Think Uffizi. My artworks document the Covid-19 pandemic through a personal style of portraiture. Mine is an ongoing series of subjects, friends, or acquaintances, whom I have documented wearing their required masks and provided details that illustrate their particular personalities. With an interest in identities, from corporate identity to personal identity, I recognize the branding styles of the culture and of the masks we poetically acquire, and wear, both visual and non-visual. Just now, although we are physically masked, I see that we are all inherently masked. The masks we must now wear are not intended as a comment on our reality. Still, as my work grows, I find that we are designing our altered identities by the masks we choose. We make a statement by the harshness or softness in the masks' designs and the way we wear them. For identity neophytes, there is no meaning. But for others, their choice is a design statement, despite the confusion in our present situation.
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