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This series explores personal identity as an ever evolving state of self-awareness trapped in a timeline that is commonly known as life. It reflects on the internalised interaction between self-perception and an ever transient environment, where we have to negotiate a personal path towards meaning and self-actualization on a daily basis. The work serves as momentary pauses en-route this journey or points within a timeline where the impact and interplay between the binary and the fluid, the conscious and sub-conscious collide. The images reflect on these moments of clarity when our own self-perception, our physical form, gender identity etc. momentarily reaches a state of balance (symmetry) or complete dissonance. Visually these works are portraits constructed using some principles of the commonly used Rorschach test. The Rorschach test is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. These works attempt to mimic aspects of this test in an attempt to illicit an emotional response or an introspective realization relating to the expression of their identity.
Original Created:2018
Subjects:Portrait
Materials:Canvas
Styles:FigurativePop ArtPortraiture
Mediums:Oil
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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South Africa
Eksteen (b. 1973, South Africa) is a figurative painter, renowned for his large scale confrontational portraits. His work relies on both figurative and abstract painting traditions in the creation of pieces that not only represent the physical appearance of his sitters, but also reflects on and explores their inner life and state of mind. Eksteen refers to the creation of these portraits as a quest for new archetypes. Works are created through a process that include several sessions with a sitter, followed by digital manipulation of reference materials before the actual painting is started. Paintings are created using several often experimental techniques and relies on finding a balance between the transparent and opaque, dark and light, the controlled and the expressive. The completed images are seemingly simplistic, but confronts on many levels with it’s raw emotional complexity.
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