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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Self-portrait

What a difficult theme Angela has chosen for her altered book! I´ve wanted to make a self-portrait since I´ve read that fabulous book about mixed-media self-portraits, so I´ve had a lot of ideas, but it has been hard to decide which to use. Now here´s a portrait of mine made with stamps - a one-winged person, groping, collecting memories (symbolized as eggs), with a beak that says I´m well-fortified as well as defenseless, carrying my ancestors in my body and a ship on my head that doesn´t know where to go ...

8 comments:

Char said...

Well I think you look fabulous. And I love the analysis is great. I love it.

Viola said...

Kann mich nur anschließen! Klasse Eintrag, Marion!!

ute said...

eine wundervoller gelungener Eintrag,ein aufschlussreiches Selbstporträt,

froebelsternchen said...

gefäöt mir richtig gut!

Tami said...

LOVELY, Marion!!!! Very well done, as always, I adore your art!
Hugs,
Tami

thekathrynwheel said...

Love this. Fabulous!

Muckypup said...

OOh, I like this idea, and I really like your page. Could be a great journal page. Thanks for the inspiration again Marion!

kslaughter said...

Wow! This is really amazing---so much to look at. You are obviously a very intricate personality ; )