As it has been said many times before, the eyes are the window to the soul. When you slow down and take a moment to gaze into the depths of someone’s eyes, what do you see? Do you see hurt… fear…joy… simplicity or complexity? Perhaps it is something indescribable. I see transparency that hides behind personality.

Transparency offers truth. It offers true acceptance of our emotions. It offers an invitation to be all things that make a person unique.

Painting this variation of a self-portrait has allowed me to bring those ideas into something recognizable.

Look. What do you see?