Age 29 - July 2023 - pencil and white goache paint I made this a few weeks after turning 29 at Kopan - a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal - while referring to two pictures of myself from the beginning and end of the course I took part
Age 27 - June 2021 - calligraphy brush pen, highlighter, micron pen I scribbled this quickly on the couch, and didn’t really think about it too hard. That year I went hiking on Odaigahara mountain to see the sunrise on the morning of my birthday, a
Age 26 - June 2020 - procreate I drew this on an iPad in a small cafe in the Japanese countryside that serves coffee and American style hotdogs. I think this was the year I decided to start the birthday portrait tradition. I had spent almost a year
Age 25 - February 2020 - watercolor I made this at the very start of the pandemic, when I was just beginning to settle into life in rural Japan. I guess at this point, I wouldn’t have known the gravity of what was coming, but somehow it feels a bit
Age 24 - April 2019 - watercolor I painted this in Japan, in a Tokyo airbnb hosted by a couple that I had stayed with six years prior when I was 18. I had turned 19 in that same house, on a very lonely birthday for which I have no self portrait. Th
Age 22 - August 2016 - graphite on paper I drew this in a beautiful and stuffy little summer sublet with no air conditioning in Bedford Park in the Bronx, during a probably once-in-a-lifetime chance to have my own studio apartment all to myself in
Age 20 - March 2015 - acrylic on canvas I painted this in the first apartment I ever rented, in Alphabet City in NYC, during my sophomore year of college for my self portrait assignment in a Life Drawing course. I put it off until the last day (as
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