i wish i had not given up painting portraits when i did. i was so self-conscious and felt like it was dumb to paint people i love. now there's this girl, elizabeth peyton, who's my age and is written up in vogue about her portrait paintings and has a permenent piece in the whitney.
what makes some people believe in themselves more than others? what makes some people blind to self-criticism and others painfully self-hating? i wish i had drive and self-belief. i wonder what part of my personality i'd have to give up to get it.
this article says that "her art is about her time." i wonder if that's like how my portraits of keith haring, grace jones and bruce willis, circa 1985, were about my time.
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When can we see these 1985 portraits?
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