Made to Measure is a series of self-portraits based on the shirts and sweaters in my closet. Within the wrinkles of each garment I find memories of the past and expressions for my own particular moods and temperaments. From the calm of lounging on a Saturday afternoon to the exuberance of going on a school fieldtrip. Applying paint with a combination of oil stick and palette knife, I mismatch modernist abstraction—the line of Ellsworth Kelly and the surface of Nicolas de Staël—with the colors and cut of a Gap button-down.

Made to Measure is a series of self-portraits based on the shirts and sweaters in my closet. Within the wrinkles of each garment I find memories of the past and expressions for my own particular moods and temperaments. From the calm of lounging on a Saturday afternoon to the exuberance of going on a school fieldtrip.

Applying paint with a combination of oil stick and palette knife, I mismatch modernist abstraction—the line of Ellsworth Kelly and the surface of Nicolas de Staël—with the colors and cut of a Gap button-down.

If we're meeting over there
On saturdays
To fieldtrips
Neel(u)
Summer evenings in the grass
If we're meeting in the Square
Untitled (Harry Bilfo Shmoo)
Not so fun parties
On first days
If we're meeting in the archway
On rainy days
To dinner at 7:15
To dinner at 5:00
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