self-portrait

Another old self-portrait, drawn with a china marker on heavily textured paper - you can see the vertical lines from the weave. I used a mirror to make the drawings in this series. Later on, I got my visual memory to the point where I could include the hand I was drawing with, but this is an early one.

It's visible how much younger I was when I made this. I'm wearing a random beret that I used to keep my hair under control, a jumper later stolen in a internet cafe in Florence, and an old cavalry gauntlet I found in the market in Piazza del Ciompi.