non-literal self portraits

These originated through the process of writing letters to myself.  These were not exactly like journal entries, but they spoke to a wish to 'picture' myself in a new atmosphere.  I used simple watercolor paintings that I tore in half or quarters and glued them on sanded pastel boards, then added blocks and marks of pastels, to give them dimension and texture.  I would then edit the letters.  I finally inserted the torn entries directly into the reimagined terrains to create a formal tension that revealed only some of what I wrote.  Many of them are diptychs.  I realized I was drawn to this format because although they didn’t look anything like the original diptychs (ancient writing tablets), they were letters I wrote so I imagined them opened like a book.