Artwork

Self-portrait bust

2019 Competition entry

Detail
Tags

William Shaer

Details:
Not Signed
Terracotta clay, porcelain, 24 karat gold and wood
30 x 30 x 50 cm
SOLD

Description:
This self-portrait bust was created through the tension between vanity and vanitas. I aimed to comment on the ideas of internal, self-determined importance and projected, external importance. At its core, the work is about authenticity within a normative society.

Wood Porcelain Terracotta clay