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smiling white man, painted in acrylic on paper by Gwenn Seemel with dynamic brushstrokes
Gwenn Seemel
Phil
2022
acrylic on paper
7 x 5 inches

$500

Phil was part of the writers’ group at the library, AKA the first people to read the beginnings of memoirish how-to book that I wrote at the start of the pandemic. There’s a vulnerability to that—to sharing an unpolished and very personal text—and there’s also a reason why I kept sharing. I call that reason the Phil-Sonya-Scot-Hannah, named for the original group of writers.

You can watch the making of Phil’s portrait.