"Self Portrait" LIMITED Edition Print
LIMITED EDITON PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS are a unique representation on their own, printed on metallic paper and are mat board supported. They are currently offered in two larger sizes per portrait and are limited to 45 prints per size, per portrait. That means that for each portrait there are only 90 limited edition prints total, and when they are gone we will not print anymore of them. Each limited edition print will be hand signed by the Artist, numbered, and will include an artists bill of sale and an original Certificate of Authenticity with each sale.
OPEN EDITION PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS are printed on metallic paper and are mat board supported. These prints will be limited to one small size, with no limit to the number of prints that will be sold. Each print will be hand signed and will include an artists bill of sale and certificate of authenticity.
Each print sale will also include a description of the portrait purchased when applicable.
Right now these are set up as print on demand so please allow up to 2 weeks for delivery.
“Self Portrait” Blair Treuer English name 2018
Naawakamigookwe/Center of the Earth Woman Ojibwe name
Fabric and Thread
54”H x 49”W 137cmH X 125cmW
Art Olympia 2019 Tokyo Semi-Honorable Mention.
Awarded December 2020.
My self portrait is about the cocktail of both despair and hope that I feel as a mother and wife in this family and about my purpose in this world. I’m in the dark and naked. I often feel I have nothing to offer my children or my husband. I am of Scandinavian decent but I don’t even know what that means to me. I don’t have ways of being handed down and taught with purpose, I don’t have things that are known by my people and through my people from ancient times. I don’t have spiritual gifts, birthrights to bestow...etc. No toolbox. I’m just out here winging it loaded up on American culture...gas stations, shopping malls, McDonalds. I didn’t realize how little I had until I realized my husband had so much. I didn’t know how lost I felt until I became aware of how sure footed my husband and my children are. But I have hope. The antlers are on top of my head as if to say, there is something incredible about me too. I also possess a spectacular gift. I can’t see it but I can feel it as though it’s within my very bones, past down from past down from my ancient tribe too. And someday I’ll know how to use it and be empowered by it.