The portrait was done at one of the lowest points in my existence.
Though it is crude, I believe that the look in my eyes and the countenance of my
face perfectly describes the psychotic mania that I was experiencing.
Categories: Self Portraits, Visual Art
Artist- Ted Giffin - Musician 
Good one….you have indeed captured an intense moment. Also love the addition of colour in this. Janet.
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Thank you!
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Sorry to hear you have a chronic health condition, Ted. Me too. Did I reply to you when you sent me those lyrics? I hope so! I had not grasped the meaning at all, so thank you for giving them to me.
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You once mentioned to me that you have a condition as well. I am pretty certain that you responded to the lyric sheet. Luckily, for almost 6 years now, I have been symptom free with the help of medication, family, and good friends. đŸ™‚
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I am very happy for you. Yes, I wouldn’t be able to cope without the same type of support. We are both very lucky.
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Yes, lucky and we are somehow mini-miracles!
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Indeed. Top of the list survivors!
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Heee heee.
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Not crude at all. I love this, it’s rawness and depth. Challenging times.
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I feel redeemed that the overwhelming sentiment about the image is that it is good. My Art Professors were negative about this one. Challenging times , yes, but I would not have lived my life any other way, not changed a thing.
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good solution to your state of mind…
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Yes, certainly expressive. Though my Art Professors were really not happy about it.
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They never are.
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Art Profs are blue meanies.
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This is a very powerful drawing. I think the crudenes of the drawing helps portray your terror, mania. I was working on a self-portrait last week and discovered that I don’t know what I look like. If I look at myself too long I see a stranger.
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I glad you see the horror in the image. Yeah, isn’t it strange about how one changes through time? I once wrote a song about being young, living my life, that it went by so fast, that I looked in the mirror, to my surprise, I found that I was an old grey man. Thank for stopping by and looking Nancy!
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I now don’t look in a mirror but can’t avoid it stepping out of the shower. The horror, the horror but why worry? They say ‘age did not weary them.’
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No worries at all. I suppose that it is best that as long as the person staring back at you from the mirror DOES NOT HATE YOU, then all will be fine.
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