Project One: Barry Comer and Richard Guest

Barry Comer, 2015

Richard Guest, 2015

This is a project by Barry Comer and Richard Guest.

Barry and I have never met in the physical world. He is based in Louisville, Kentucky and I live on the edge of London. I have long admired his drawings. So I jumped at the chance when Barry suggested we work together.

At the top of this post you can see Barry by Barry and Richard by Richard. Having agreed to work on each other’s images in a game of consequences/ exquisite corpse kind of way, we swapped self-portraits.

The idea was to pass the images back and forth a set number of times, each adding to (or subtracting from) both portraits, and responding to the other’s changes. In my case, I had a hidden agenda and sought:

(a) to bring out my idea of who Barry is (based on his blog and my knowledge of him from emails etc), in the picture and make him central to it.

(b) to make myself disappear.

Here are the in-between stages in sequence:

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And here are the final images:

Barry Comer, 2015

Richard Guest, 2015

Self Portrait in Three Parts

– 31 March, 2015 –

This takes its title from the day it was completed. I started working on it 27^th February and continued every day until the 31^st March 2015. Once part III was roughly how I wanted it to be I started work on Part I. Once that part was most of the way there, I started on II and then worked on all three parts simultaneously. All three images have a bit of me in there somewhere.

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II

III

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Ashley Lily Scarlett and I have started a new blog called Between Scarlett and Guest. It’s a dialogue in pictures. You can read/ eavesdrop on the conversation here.

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To read about my visit with David Cook to the recent Richard Serra exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, click here.

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Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)

– Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah), 2015 –

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Ashley Lily Scarlett and I have started a new blog called Between Scarlett and Guest. It’s a dialogue in pictures. You can read/ eavesdrop on the conversation here.

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Fool

– Fool (Maskenfreiheit), 2015 –

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Ashley Lily Scarlett and I have started a new blog called Between Scarlett and Guest. It’s a dialogue in pictures. You can read/ eavesdrop on the conversation here.

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Self Portrait with Work

– Work #1, 2014 –

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– Self Portrait, 2014 –

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 If you are interested in self-portraits, I recommend you visit Strata of the Self. It’s beautiful.

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That Day Is Done

– One Bell Ringing, 2014 –

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If you are interested in self-portraits, I recommend you visit Strata of the Self. It’s beautiful.

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Dig Me

– Sleepless, 2014 –

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If you are interested in self-portraits, I recommend you visit Strata of the Self. It’s beautiful.

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Pictures of a City

– Underground Medicine, 2014 –

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– Self with Wall, 2014 –

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– Underground Medicine, 2014 –

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This post is dedicated to Leanne Cole.

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Self-portrait

– Self-portrait with tree and woman, 2014 –

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If you are at all interested in self-portraits, I strongly recommend you visit Strata of the Self.

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Be Seeing You

Set Me Free, 2013

Just a quick post to say thank you to everyone who has contributed to The Future Is Papier Mâché this year by commenting, liking or reading. It’s really very much appreciated. I’m taking a break from blogging for a week or two to try and regain my oomph. In the meantime, I hope you all have a fine time doing whatever you’re doing! And have a very happy new year. Cheerio and thank you!

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Self Portrait, 2013

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