The Self of an Instant / Le moi de passage Print

"THE SELF OF AN INSTANT" by Elsa Chesnel. Charcoal, Graphite, and Soft Pastels on Paper 2019, 11 x 11 in. (28 x 28 cm) Framed: 15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm) Please contact me at if you would like to purchase it unframed and rolled up. The Self of an Instant is the hesitating self-portrait of an artist in motion, stuck in a tiny bathroom between a rather large easel and a cumbersome bathtub. It resides in the search for new directions and the absence of models when creativity strikes on a late rainy night. Ready to hang. "Ghostlike/Vertige sur fond plat" is a fully bilingual collection of drawings born from my physical limitations and from the search for a new directions. It started on a late rainy night, creativity striking along with pain, forcing me to (temporarily) abandon my large in-progress Thin Green Line, and prompting reflections on lost things, disappeared people, and diminished abilities. It required me to dig out other skills i.e. my unused life drawing practice, and to explore the realm of academic drawing, but not without a spin of my own. As different as this collection might be, it still speaks the same language of superimpositions, trickery and poetry, and of visual and emotional impact. Full collection at