Self portrait and Still Life
Graphite on paper. 7 x 3 in.
Created February 1998

This drawing focuses on altered perception. Most of my paintings and drawings are based on the same theme. In this one I tried to make the image of me look more like Lewis Carol's character Alice. This drawing suggests the images in the reflection are the distorted and melted images of another world. It's a place where I can see but cannot truely visit; unlike Alice who did so in the story
Though the Looking Glass.

The still life portion of the drawing has items that are important to me. Like my records, a Hawiian coffee mug and a box that my great gandfather made, a plastic monkey puppet face and the rabbit mask that Tom wore on Halloween. There's even a couple of self portrait paintings that I was working on at the time. The spoon in the glass is a reference to my mother who recently died in February of 2002.