A portrait has a life of its own.  Once it is complete, it is no longer the artist's perception, but ours, and maybe that of the artwork itself.

We see ourselves either in the artist's eye or in a mirror.  Portraits of Art are the way they would see themselves reflected in a mirror.  The image is theirs, but the perception and the new reality are ours.  The artwork is looking back at us, and we wonder, in whose presence are we, the subject, the artist, the artwork or ourselves?

 

Adel Gorgy