Double Self-Portrait - 2021

Original: 18x21" oil on board

This year, 2021, we experienced record-breaking natural disasters, the continued global Coronavirus
pandemic, international political crises, and a general psychological foment. As I chewed on these issues
with one of my best friends, Blair Brown (we have spoken every Sunday morning for almost 50 years), I told
her I felt like I had no skin, and she admonished me to exorcise those demons by painting that feeling. So,
I used a skinned Hapalemur griseus (Bamboo lemur) as my alter ego. The image is borrowed from Alfred
Grandidier’s Histoire Physique. Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar (1890).