{"id":767,"date":"2015-12-29T22:21:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T22:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.lindsaywelch.com\/?page_id=767"},"modified":"2016-08-12T21:26:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T21:26:50","slug":"self-portraits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/?page_id=767","title":{"rendered":"Self Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Self Portraits<\/h5>\n<h4><style type='text\/css'>\n\t#ngg-gallery-77b550f484f66ba537bb99960acdca8d .ngg-pro-masonry-item {\n\t\tmargin-bottom: 10px;\n\t}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"ngg-pro-masonry-wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"ngg-pro-masonry-spinner\">\n\t\t<i class='fa fa-spin fa-spinner'><\/i>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"ngg-pro-masonry\" id=\"ngg-gallery-77b550f484f66ba537bb99960acdca8d\">\n\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-gutter' style='width: 10px'><\/div>\n\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-sizer' style='width: 220px'><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-item' style='height: 291px; max-width: 220px;'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/self-portraits\/Self-Portrait.-IMG_0039-10.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle=\"&lt;em&gt;Self-Portrait&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br\/&gt;2000&lt;br\/&gt; oil, acrylic, burned paper media on canvas&lt;br\/&gt; 24 x 18 inches &lt;br\/&gt; Collection Cape Ann Museum&lt;br\/&gt;&lt;br\/&gt; This self portrait was done at the request of the Berlin Society of Woman Artists, of which I was a guest artist at the time, for a large catalogue of their members\u2019 work. After eleven years of work on the Holocaust, genocide and other crimes against humanity, I felt raw, as if mass death was constantly on my mind. The only way I could envision myself at the time was with mortality as my companion, including my own.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/self-portraits\/Self-Portrait.-IMG_0039-10.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/self-portraits\/cache\/Self-Portrait.-IMG_0039-10.jpg-nggid0231-ngg0dyn-440x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"31\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"Self-Portrait\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-description=\"&lt;em&gt;Self-Portrait&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br\/&gt;2000&lt;br\/&gt; oil, acrylic, burned paper media on canvas&lt;br\/&gt; 24 x 18 inches &lt;br\/&gt; Collection Cape Ann Museum&lt;br\/&gt;&lt;br\/&gt; This self portrait was done at the request of the Berlin Society of Woman Artists, of which I was a guest artist at the time, for a large catalogue of their members\u2019 work. After eleven years of work on the Holocaust, genocide and other crimes against humanity, I felt raw, as if mass death was constantly on my mind. The only way I could envision myself at the time was with mortality as my companion, including my own.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ngg-captions-nostylecopy=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"77b550f484f66ba537bb99960acdca8d\" data-ngg-protect=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\n<img title=\"Self-Portrait\" alt=\"Self-Portrait\" width=\"220\" height=\"291\" style=\"max-width:220px;max-height:291px\" src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/self-portraits\/cache\/Self-Portrait.-IMG_0039-10.jpg-nggid0231-ngg0dyn-220x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-item' style='height: 292px; max-width: 220px;'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/self-portraits\/Brain-Eyes-1.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle=\"&lt;em&gt;Self-Portrait&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br\/&gt;2014&lt;br\/&gt;&#013;\nmixed media on canvas&lt;br\/&gt;&#013;\n12 x 9 inches&lt;br\/&gt;&lt;br\/&gt;&#013;\nEyes and tears have become symbolic visual elements for me to connote witnessing and its accompanying feelings. I tell myself that it is important to know and not to forget, but at this point in my life I am often more in touch with the despair of knowing and the helplessness and frustration of knowledge of injustice.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/self-portraits\/Brain-Eyes-1.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/self-portraits\/cache\/Brain-Eyes-1.jpg-nggid0227-ngg0dyn-440x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"27\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"Self-Portrait\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-description=\"&lt;em&gt;Self-Portrait&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br\/&gt;2014&lt;br\/&gt;&#013;\nmixed media on canvas&lt;br\/&gt;&#013;\n12 x 9 inches&lt;br\/&gt;&lt;br\/&gt;&#013;\nEyes and tears have become symbolic visual elements for me to connote witnessing and its accompanying feelings. I tell myself that it is important to know and not to forget, but at this point in my life I am often more in touch with the despair of knowing and the helplessness and frustration of knowledge of injustice.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ngg-captions-nostylecopy=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"77b550f484f66ba537bb99960acdca8d\" data-ngg-protect=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\n<img title=\"Self-Portrait\" alt=\"Self-Portrait\" width=\"220\" height=\"292\" style=\"max-width:220px;max-height:292px\" src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/self-portraits\/cache\/Brain-Eyes-1.jpg-nggid0227-ngg0dyn-220x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Artist Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I have always been a reluctant artist, maybe because when I make art, I also obsess about meaning, existence and inhumanity. I can\u2019t seem to separate them, and I have always questioned what kind of contribution I could make by spending my time creating objects with no tangible purpose. So I have tried doing other things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But nothing in life has ever meant as much to me as visual art. It has been my solace and refuge, when I am making it or viewing it. It is where I experience awe in my life. It is the means by which I best process ideas. It is necessary for me to have any sort of peace in my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Even when I am not consciously focusing on a particular history or theme, the state of the world runs like a river through my art making.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self Portraits #ngg-gallery-77b550f484f66ba537bb99960acdca8d .ngg-pro-masonry-item { margin-bottom: 10px; } Artist Statement I have always been a reluctant artist, maybe because when I make art, I also obsess about meaning, existence and inhumanity. 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