Self Portrait

The printed text on the Dibond Aluminium panel represents the ongoing dialogue between the I and the Other, metaphor for Zizi Rincolisky and her psychoanalyst.  The text ( also printed separately on A4 parchment papers) reveals something of what the philosopher and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan calls 'la langue' to the viewer/reader, an individual  speech, that through the lack of punctuation appears like a manic discourse. The painted image is a collage consisting of a figure from the Book of Kells and the portrait of the artist as a child. The oversized distorted mouth in addition to the images of the Celtic fantasy figure are supposed to transmit something of the oral drive, the desire to limitless devour scenery, food, love, money......