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Maria Rojo De Steffey

Gwenn Seemel
Maria Rojo De Steffey (Multnomah County Commissioner)
2005
acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches

Back when I was creating this series, I was using an analog camera to photograph my subjects.  Once I had finished a portrait, I always sent the subjects all the photos that were not crucial to the building of the portrait.  After all, I usually took between 50 and 80 photos of a subjec: it didn’t make sense to keep all of them. 

This particular subject from Public Faces gave those extra photos to her grandchildren, who enjoyed including their grandmother in their collage artworks.