Another self portrait, this time carved from a small slab of rubber using various tools including an X-Acto knife. The finished piece measures about 2 x 3 inches; just slightly bigger than your average business card.
A lot of work was involved in this, partially due to it's small size, and also due to the fact that instead of carving the lines making up my face, which would have been dead simple, I choose to carve out the rubber around each line! What a chore, especially on such a small scale. As you can imagine when carving anything: one false move and it's pretty much ruined.
Working from a recent photo of myself taken by a stranger in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, I'm not quite sure if it counts as a self portrait...but since this carving is my interpretation of that photo, I'm going to call it a self portrait. In blue ink. So I can claim it to be from my 'blue period'!
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