For the past few days I've been analyzing my self portraits to try and get an understanding of what I've done in the past year and what I want to do in this next year and I have come to the conclusion that I am really damn tired of seeing pretty pictures of myself. It is seriously killing me and today I am making it a goal to take more provoking self portraits that aren't pretty at first glance. It's not that I think a pretty picture can't be a good picture but rather that there are so many other territories to be conquered that are outside the realm of a "pretty picture" and I want to explore them all. I want distortion, wrinkles in the skin, imperfections, eyes half closed, nails bitten down to the core and cracks in the lips. I want pig faces, duck faces, fish faces, sad faces, mad faces, disturbing faces and terrifying faces. I want to find the core of a rotten soul, the depths of the Black Sea, where the ashes get blown off too after it's all said and done. This was my first attempt.