Self Portrait

Self Portrait is a series of data set paintings that explore characteristics of the digital image, primarily its discreteness and its mutability. I’m interested in how these features of the digital image shape visual experience more broadly. the painting draws from a collection of shapes, in this case a vectorized portrait of myself containing 2,580 distinct vector paths.

This composition uses twenty-two paths from the data set that are copied, repeated, resized, rotated, transformed, layered and then carefully translated to paint on canvas.