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aileen imperatrice self portraits
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30” x 48” This was the very first painting I did in the Self-Portraits collection. It was an image I had in my mind for a very long time and I was so happy once I was finally creating it and got it out. That’s how I feel with most of the collection. This piece was perfectly scheduled to be the first one I created because it dealt with the feelings I had before embarking on the whole series. It was my first expression of how I felt about even doing this collection. The chair is mostly white, with other colors blended into it and the background is predominantly yellow with blues and greens and reds, symbolizing the first feelings I had knowing that what I was going to reveal in this collection was going to be intensely personal and more than I’ve ever shared with people before. I felt very exposed; I knew I was going to be exposed. The white chair represents this exposed feeling and clean slate of me, but there are those other blended colors that I know will come out in what I paint, and the experiences that I had that affect what I create and how I express myself. And so the chair is not completely clean. I knew I was going to be vulnerable and it was going to be a very life altering thing to do, to share these things with people in a visual form, very upfront, and therefore my question, wondering, what will you think of me?
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