Marc Quinn, Self 1991, a self portrait of his head using his blood. The balance between life and death. Quinn discusses this work as an ephemeral quality of mortality, and using the body in "self" t

Article: https://old.upm.ro/gidni/GIDNI-01/Lit/Lit%2001%2036.pdf. What i find missing from this article is that imagerary only plays one aspect of our make up. More relevant is our internal organs our brain the thinking process, the senses, the emotions, the feelings, the spirituality, the touch. Quinn’s image is very emotive but fails to address whats beyond. He does however address this in his portrait of John Sulston. Where Quinn discusses our unique identity visible in our DNA. http://marcquinn.com/artworks/dna

I am posting this as i continue to look at ways to present my body, figuratively or absent.