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PORTRAITS

2023

Self-initiated

Frida Kahlo Portrait

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”

Frida Kahlo

“Why should I paint dead fish, onions and
beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.”


Marie Laurencin

Marie Laurencin Portrait
Virginia Woolf Portrait

“As a woman I have no country.
As a woman I want no country.
As a woman, my country is the whole world.”


Virginia Woolf

“There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
That's the answer.”


Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein Portrait
Vivien Maier Portrait

“I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people.
It's a wheel. You get on, you have to go to the end, and then somebody else takes their place.”


Vivian Maier

“Living is like tearing through a museum.
Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.”


Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn Portrait
Marina Abramovic Portrait

“The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.”

Marina Abramović

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Portrait
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