Today was a good day and I got a lot done and enjoyed time with family and friends. But it also was a high pain day too. My head started off not great, but the more I am active the worse it gets. I figured that I’d let it help inspire a self portrait. I didn’t want to pull out all my art supplies, but I had taken a bunch of selfies a week or so ago and thought at the time that some of them might be neat incorporated into another artwork.

Since my head is so throbbing I was thinking about drowning it in alcohol or banging it against a cement wall. I flipped through my recent photos folder and found photos of the bar at Greektown Casino and the undergraduate library at Wayne State that fit these ideas with an interesting feel. I adjusted them and layered them in photoshop and like how it turned out. I think the composition works well between these three very different photos. Not bad for hardly being able to concentrate tonight.

I think I might get this one printed and enter it in a show. But that will wait until another day when my head is thinking clearer. I do think I need to do more self portraits. I can get a little more experimental and creative without worrying about hurting anyone else’s feelings if they don’t like the way they look in the composition.

Do you enjoy self portraits as a way to push your boundaries as an artist or photographer?