Scanner Self-Portraits

For a number of years I have been creating works that examine aging through my experiences. As I have grown older, I have become keenly aware of age perceptions and biases, both overtly and covertly expressed. Should what we as older artists produce be automatically perceived as primarily historical? Should the search for the young, the new and the elusively radical preclude the possibility of critical engagement with significant contemporary cultural issues by other segments of the creative population? The answers and resulting correlative questions will arguably be viewed differently by all who participate but are of particular interest to those crossing that threshold.

.I am interested in the distortions that the extremely shallow depth of field creates when I used a document scanner as a camera to capture these images directly. The first and third images are mounted on wood panels with washes of poured iridescent acrylic paint.