As a follow up to yesterday’s post, today’s art tour photo is a photo collage from the same time period. But in this case, rather than depicting an identity crisis, the artwork questions the possibility of multi-dimensional existence — or maybe just multiple personality disorders. Does that sound like the latest LOST episode? They’re on the island, but they’re in LA. John Locke is dead — but he’s on the plane too.

This artwork predates LOST by many years; it found it’s roots in an overly pedantic magazine article which addressed post-modernism in art and it’s connection to individuals in primitive societies coexisting as human beings and ravens (or was it crows?). Ah — college — the things we spent our time on.

At any rate, today’s question is: Are we pulled in so many directions that we feel as if we’re living multi-dimensional lives? Or instead, do we all have multiple personality disorders?  And if so,  how do we effectively balance our varying personalities and planes of existence to project a capable whole to the outside world?

While my bachelor’s degree is in business, I also studied design and fine art at Buffalo State College and UB. This is a self portrait made with a reverse painting method. The board was covered in ink and the image was made by bleaching away the light areas. It’s a comment on public persona and what’s really behind the mask. While we all tend to be more dramatic in college, there is some truth to this still, for most if not all of us.