Joe Average
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
There are few works of art that move me as this particular self-portrait did. Staring myself in the eye is not something I enjoy - it frightens me to see past this carefully constructed mask and into the depths of my soul. That requires a tremendous amount of courage: courage to face the facts - that time inevitable consumes our youth, that sickness inevitable consumes our strength, that death inevitably consumes our dreams and aspirations.