I made a portrait of myself with a gallon of latex paint. I had my flesh scanned by a spectrophotometer at a Home Depot. It is a pure unbiased analysis of myself, far better than I could do. It discerns my physical essence like a photograph. Photographs after all are merely meaningless dots and digital information squeezed together. It is up to the viewer to put the dots and pixels together and come up with their own feelings and conclusions about them .... As of yet, I have not done anything with this gallon of paint. In the past, painted a canvases and a taxidermied magpie with my analyzed paint, But for right now it is an inert portrait, full of possibilities..... One day I wish to have a lover, and have them analyzed, and paint my room the color of their flesh.
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