past, present and future self-portraits using objects

Ahh, this one I could get super deep into, being various reflections of myself in objects both from those times and from now, or hopeful future perceptions of myself… but to avoid that, I’ll simply say this was interesting.

At first, I hated that we had to do this, I wanted to avoid labeling myself in any period, especially the future, because I don’t know, and I’m just becoming comfortable with that, so to approach it and try to craft something satisfactorily unknown into something relatively specific was daunting and in a way scary. I like how this came out very much, technically and as a piece.

The images aren’t the best, but the three pieces are shown vertically, past to future. The past and present drawings have their notebook fringe still on them, while the future one doesn’t. The present image is more playful with style, using a sort of comic-y take on movement and action, a bit more of a conceptual image, with a clear presence of a maker’s hands. That was important.

The past is small and contained on purpose, the future is only a glimpse, and of object mostly, things that won’t change, representing values I won’t lose: tolerance, understanding, adventure, playfulness. The sticker at the bottom seemed to fit as a label for the whole piece, though I never thought of it as a title until people started using it as one.

All three done with a charcoal pencil. I watched a bunch of X-Files while drawing them…it’s becoming the background for any drawing project I do.