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Elizabeth MacKenzie

negotiating doubt

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Stain series, 2015

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I've previously drawn faces with their eyes closed or downcast, but these stained self-portraits appear more ominous. The process of drawing my own face, that I then destroy, suggests both possession and alienation—I am simultaneously absent and present in these images. Once again I find myself investigating the monstrous, the obscured, the familiar combined with the strange. I am drawing my own mortality.

I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.