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- Thérèse Tynan
Thérèse
Tynan
‘Self Porthérèse’
My work explores my perception of ‘Self’ through informal observation and a personal means of expression.
By attempting to convey the emotional and psychological realism of myself, I created a number of portraits whilst looking at my reflection in the mirror. The mirror image defamiliarizes the real and opens it up to the force of the irrational and the unconscious.
As my hand was guided by my subconscious, I created portraits that do not appear realistic but are psychologically accurate.
I use my drawings as a means of cataloguing my feelings and experiences through my own pictorial language, creating them out of compulsion to document both fleeting thoughts and fixed characteristics of myself.
Through the use of the self-portrait, I am seeking a candid and sometimes awkward intimacy with my drawings
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