self separation signals constraint.

From the Anatomical Atlas, Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty

Mike Parr’s self portrait is one that attempts to map the interactions of mind and body, the conscious and the unconscious. It is not a solipsistic search for the self but rather an attempt to explore the human condition and how the personal informs the political. In his self-portrait prints, Parr takes his own image and twists, stretches and defaces it. They are scratched and scarred; marked by acts of aggression and violence. The concept of identity, then, constantly shifts and mutates — unfolds and buckles. 

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Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) Study on “St. Jerome”

{photo:Capuchin crypt, Rome Italy}

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Above the California Desert (by Brad Gillette) The salt crust is colored red by dense colonies of halophilic archaebacteria.

Damien Hirst, Cupid’s Lie, (2008). 

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