When I create, I disappear into another world. My surroundings cease to exist, yet my senses are heightened, connecting my physical being to an intangible realm. By combining traditional and digital media, this self portrait represents these two worlds, part of an ongoing investigation into how we express our external and internal selves in multiple realities.
Self-Portrait (Dreamer) was created for People of Tezos, a project to document artists making a contribution to the Tezos blockchain. Each artist is invited to create a digital self-portrait, which is minted with a short biography as an immutable record of their role in the community..
This animation consists of 110 portraits, each hand drawn in charcoal under a rostrum camera, then erased to make the next frame. The images were sequenced and manipulated using digital techniques developed over several years.
Here & Now have partnered with People of Tezos to create an online gallery experience. Here you can explore three Towers with each self-portrait in its own metaverse gallery. Visit the experience here.
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