Portrait of an Artist Interviews

The quote I chose is by the artist Erik Hougen: "In the past year or two, I have been making large watercolors and silkscreens inspired by a vivid dream I had. In the dream I had to bury my own dead body. I looked at the dream not as scary, gory, or horrific, but as more of an awakening or a rebirth. I have had some big events in my life recently, and maybe my mind had to bury my old body, or self, to transition into the next part of my life." I chose this artist because his work uses a bunch of different techniques to show a variety of portraits in his work. This shows that there's plenty of different ways to look at a portrait or self-portrait besides a straight on view of a person. I picked this quote because it goes along with our self-portrait project in the way that we have to think of it not just as a straight up self-portrait, but instead of a way to incorporate our personality into the piece and by doing that we have to kind of look at ourselves and our lives to think of what we'd include.