This one here is from 1974. I made it in the very first weaving class I ever took. It's a tapestry done on a small frame loom. The hair is one of my first handspun yarns. Interestingly, my hair, now, kinda looks like this -- brown with some gray. I was living in Ben Lomond, in the Santa Cruz mountains, at the time.
The drawing here was done in 1978 when I was living on Maui. I was taking a drawing class at an estate-turned-art center there called Kalua Nui. I rarely draw anymore but there is a quality that I like about my drawings. It would be an excellent thing for me to do as a meditation, because it requires so much focus on the present moment and looking at precisely what's in front of my eye.
This last piece was done last year, 2007, as part of a project for an art group I sometimes attend, called the ABC Group, or Altered Book and Collage Group. The "canvas" is a 2x2 inch slide mount, covered with handmade paper and glitter glue. The photo of me is from 1977, on Maui, photocopied recently. The copper wire and beads are a perfect representation of my hair.
I'm curious whether I have any other representations of myself so I'm going to look around. I have a feeling I may find a number of things that I feel speak of different parts of myself although they may not look like portraits, per se. At any rate, I do enjoy using unusual media to show my many faces to the world.
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