AMBER FAHRNER BLOG POST # 8

"The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face. You're doomed to being you. This he says, leaves us free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait".

The quote comes from a section in the book that talks about the art school the characters were in and how everything was somehow related to some type of self-portrait. I think the quote expresses the feeling of how one sees them self. How that each person may see them self differently in a mirror or when they draw a self portrait. That when you are able to draw yourself as you see, everything comes out on that paper or canvas of your interpretation. I chose this specific picture to represent the quote because I thought it was a different outlook on the meaning. I think the picture reveals how anyone can look in a mirror and see whoever they want to be. The same can happen when one is drawing themselves. A person can highlight the certain feature that stands out. The cat seeing itself as a lion is all that really matters because to that cat it sees itself as a strong powerful animal even if not everyone else notices. A self-portrait is what one sees in them self, and that person is the only one that truly knows.


Chuck Palahniuk, Diary Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday, 2003), page 132

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