Metaphysic Storm

Jun 11 2008

Imperadør Hasemörder

It’s been a few years since I’ve done a self

portrait. I just had to do a painting that didn’t

have money in the mind.

# thimscoolon 11 Jun 2008 at 5:52 am

Brilliant.
# Imperadør Hasemörderon 11 Jun 2008 at 2:50 pm

Thanks. I thought you might like it.
# Woozieon 12 Jun 2008 at 3:39 am

I really really like this. Love all of your self portraits man.

I want it.
# unokhanon 12 Jun 2008 at 4:41 am

this is almost as good as ‘zero’, yet gives the subject a more humane treatment, not quite tenderness.

in that particularly astounding earlier canvas, the robert seems to be fixed momentarily under the merciless bathing of an ice light from hell, and he gazes back directly defiant beneath the strange scrutiny.

there is about this new one something i think you may not have intended — and i, a total fucking amateur, barely dare mention it but–

online at least, there seems in this new one a lack of firmness in the mouth which is not you; the accidental illusion is occasioned by a thin perforated whitish line where the lips meet, intended perhaps to indicate moisture but creating instead the appearance of open-mouthed irresoluteness (and/or teeth).

in your other self-portraits this does not appear. but hell, mebbe your nose wuz stopped up