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aileen imperatrice self portraits
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With a question mark, 24” x 30”. Attached to the back of this painting, I’ve included a beautiful bright red cape as a 3 dimensional element. This image, thankfully more fun for the exhibit, is very cartoonish, I’ve used bright primary colors to exemplify the images of superheroes, and yes it is a chair, it’s a blue chair, but it’s definitely inhabited by a superhero persona. The letter across the front is done like superman except that it’s an A and I use that to represent three different things, my own name Aileen starts with an A, and A for artist, which are things that both represent me. I am a person first, but I am an artist primarily. This piece represents what I feel like when I try to be a little too super, and I think we all fall into that sometimes, where we try to be a little more than we can actually handle and I question myself, am I trying to be superhuman? I want to believe I can be, I try to put myself out there and do so many different things at once because I feel I can’t afford to miss any opportunity, and so I get super involved in a lot of things and of course there are always people who are willing and eager to take advantage of that. And I wonder if that’s the best way to do it. I’ve come to a point now in my life, where I’m trying to simplify a bit and focus on the more important things, put my efforts into the things that are the best for my life or maybe have the most to deal with what I can do, what I can really achieve. It’s been difficult because I am definitely a type A personality (the third A), I like to do a lot of different things, I like to be involved with a lot of different things and so it’s very difficult for me to say no, and it’s very hard to slim down the amount of things that I’m doing because I’m afraid I’ll miss something. But I realize if I try to do too many things, then I miss out on enjoying those things that I am doing, and the simple things like just enjoying time with my dogs and my husband, I can’t completely enjoy because I’m thinking of those other things I need to get done. It’s that question, am I trying to be SuperMe?, do I really need to be? This is a fun way to express the battle of trying to be a superme and wearing the cape.
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