'Selfie in Paris' Painting

My favourite medium is oil on large canvas. My dream is to produce the 'massive paintings' which will strike the observers hearts and minds. The inspiration for this collection was the modern phenomenon which has taken place with the rise of the digital camera, the ‘selfie’. The aim of this artwork was to underline how we are obsessed about digital media and the kind of possibilities we have by the availability and the limitless number of images we can capture using the digital camera.  We can then choose the one we would like to present on social media.  These possibilities give use the opportunity to deceive the reality, with the desire for beauty making people mask or edit their faces or body. The paintings part of the ‘selfie’ collection is within context yet are an exaggerated account of selfie photos, they are painted to show the extreme aspects of selfie taking.  As some people are ready to do everything for an ‘exciting’ selfie photo; show a naked body or climb up a skyscraper.  The bold colours and strong contrasting lines emphasise this and bring a personal and specific character to the paintings.