Self Portrait 2024

Self Portrait 2024 20,Sept 2024

Oil painting on canvas

A1 size 59.4 cm × 84.1 cm

This self-portrait shows me asleep, wearing bold makeup and a blank expression, against a muted yellow backdrop. The nose ring, a subtle but honest trace of my identity, remains visible. Through a female lens, the image explores the quiet exhaustion behind beauty—the contrast between the effort of appearance and the vulnerability of rest. In this moment of stillness, the self is neither fully performed nor fully hidden, but caught in between.