Ego

If every artist finds his measure of “Ego” in art, I’ll be the first to say that I don’t have enough of it. Thus, I decided to create an artificial ego. If, as Freud has written, the ego as the building block of a modern artist’s creativity, what might the visual expression of that ego might look like today? The ideal material for this concept is found in the ego of other artists. In applying an imagined centripetal force to each image, I force the striking color averages of Chuck Close to rush to the center of my artificial “Ego.”