Dimensions:
Panels: 1
Year: 2016-20
Medium: water colour and ink
Description: A self portrait that shows an honest hidden joy of the artist and a feeling of freedom brought by painting. The tattoo on his stomach painted in the mirror reverse, is his family name AIKEN written in Japanese, EI meaning shadow, and KEN meaning sword. This continues his fascination of other meanings, and how we see ourselves in multiple ways and the common meaning and histories of our families and our names, the artist is from one of the oldest European families living in North American before it was the United States, tied to the Mayflower and the Fortune. Where Blair means “field of battle”, and Aiken “ means “Earth” an tattooed this commonality of meaning of to remind him.