AlAlternative Self Portrait: Tyler Steckler

face_darkness_by_kamesen This piece has a bit of a darker side to it and works very well-fitting the alternate self-portrait subject. Although I have never heard of this artist before I belive he or she has done a phenomenal job. Before reading the typography in the portrait we see a shy (eyes closed) human. The facial expressions and outline of the face suggest that he or she is curled up or wrapped up in this sad typography  “blanket”. The artist has done a great job using typography texture to insinuate a blanket or fog. After further investigation into the portrait we start to read more and more self-conscious phrases such as “I don’t know if I want to die” or  “only then does she fear me”. Further insinuating a struggle to break through this “fog” and a “want” to be seen by the world or even noticed by this “she” the artist talks about. Finally I am unsure if the artist meant for this to happen or not but between the two eyes of the human and almost directly in the middle of the portrait it says “Here I am”, a direct representation of this portrait.  Saying to the consumer  “I don’t usually open up like this, I was once hidden in the darkness of this blanket but now here I am for everybody to see”! This portrait tells a really interesting story of somebody who wants to be free from the blanket or fog holding them back.

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