I've been experimenting recently with the idea of documenting the process of creating art and having this documentation, this proof and process, be artwork... or even, be the significant artwork itself, and not the actual painting, drawing, what have you.
I think my greatest strength and weakest link is that I always ask the questions, "How does this work?", "Where did this come from?", "What was here before, after, in a million years?". I'm more interested in its story, than the object, the spectacle itself. This is true for people I meet, or will meet, or people that won't talk to me anymore. Yes, the relationship really exists in the Now, but it's the memory and the anticipation that we ponder. I can't help but to think of the ephemeral qualities of everything. Take for instance, you're most likely reading this in a jouranl, called the Ephemeris.
Painting this sort of portrait, one of myself using a mirror, always reminds me of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strip; Calvin is looking in a puddle and wonders to Hobbes about the idea that what he's seeing is an opposite Universe and that the moment he looks away from the puddle, the entire universe and the existance of his reflective self will be destroyed. Hobbes puts up the postulate that maybe he himself is that reflected self that will be destroyed. Calvin keeps staring at the reflection till nightfall.
Documenting a painting in this stop motion style reminds me of claymation movies some what. It's again trying to hit on the idea of giving another dimension to a painting, that I'm also trying to accomplish via pixelPaint.
