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116 x 80 cm soft acrylics and oil paint on second hand canvas.

first self-portrait, in a distorted way i guess (i'm actually quite tall). In 2003 i made a painting i called conditioned ignorance, with a figure having spikey stuff coming out of a stretched mouth. [link] There was an earlier drawing, without the tv and electrodes. Looking to explain, i said it was what people did to themselves in society because they think they´re supposed to, and then they get stuck. Later i realized however that that was not where the image came from. The concept was something i projected onto it later. The image came from how i felt, like this burning restlessness that sometimes almost got too much, like it wanted to burst through my chest like the embryo in Alien. You feel like you would want to scream it out with a primal scream that tears through everything. So i've been wanting to make this new, more honest version for a while where i finally paint myself and how i (sometimes) feel at the same time.

I would very much appreciate comments and critiques.

Description
116 x 80 cm soft acrylics and oil paint on second hand canvas.

first self-portrait, in a distorted way i guess (i'm actually quite tall). In 2003 i made a painting i called conditioned ignorance, with a figure having spikey stuff coming out of a stretched mouth. [link] There was an earlier drawing, without the tv and electrodes. Looking to explain, i said it was what people did to themselves in society because they think they´re supposed to, and then they get stuck. Later i realized however that that was not where the image came from. The concept was something i projected onto it later. The image came from how i felt, like this burning restlessness that sometimes almost got too much, like it wanted to burst through my chest like the embryo in Alien. You feel like you would want to scream it out with a primal scream that tears through everything. So i've been wanting to make this new, more honest version for a while where i finally paint myself and how i (sometimes) feel at the same time.

I would very much appreciate comments and critiques.