This painting deals with the idea of self at several points in time. Myself as a toddler, myself looking at a photograph of me as a toddler, and myself making a painting of these two times. In the painting, I’ve included the reflection of my hand in the photograph’s shiny surface. We can think about the philosophical thought experiment of Theseus’
paradox, which questions whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. As I
grow older, do I become an entirely different person? What advice could my past self give me?