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Alex Davern |
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Jacob Leary – Self-Portrait with My Hand
The painting, Self-Portrait with My Hand, is part of a series I have been working on in the past few years. The paintings, which have been primarily portraits, are built up using household paint colour samples from the hardware store. Through the series, the works seek an exploration into the materiality of this paint source and connotations connected to this commercial and throw-away form of colour. The portraits, or the self-portrait, are a pondering on the constructed character of our identities, the buy, try, never content nature of our commercialised desires and the role new media and technology has in shaping and defining our existence in the world.
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