Paris December. 2004

Self-portrait of me in my studio in Paris on a December Sunday evening. The activity is of me consuming, smoking, drinking- just a typical evening. I have cut all the actions of my hands entering the frame - it’s kind of twitchy. Reminds me a bit of Francis Bacon and a bit of the Warhol’s portrait after he was shot, I forgot the artist’s name that made the painting. These were not reference points it’s just something I noticed after the fact. If anything it really sits there a bit with the screen test films by Warhol.

(Skip Arnold)