Good point about the title “It’s Inside You.”

Theoretically it could just as well be titled “It’s Inside Me.” My thoughts behind the title that I chose went something like this: I’m putting a painting together that features me in a face-off with myself. It could be self-analysis, introspection, reflection… Or it could be seen as facing my Lacanian “other,” extracting part of myself that I wish wasn’t there. And working against the mostly symmetrical design of the image, there is a distinct invasion of the one self into the other (with the plunger’s handle jutting into the torso of the left figure).

The painting functions as a demonstration of me addressing myself, and if I were talking to myself in a moment of self-reflection, I would speak in the second person, addressing myself as “you” instead of “me.”

After thinking about it for a while, I decided that the difference must be in the angles from the photographs were taken. That makes me more curious to see it in person. Maybe someday!

Ever since I saw your painting and its title “It’s Inside You,” my mind keeps saying, “Shouldn’t it be ‘It’s Inside Me.’” The only explanation that I have thought of so far is that you are saying, “It’s [stuff which should be discarded] Inside You [an alternative version of me where I can put the ’shameful’ memories].”
Robert

The top image is the complete painting, while the lower image is just a detail. I took the detail shot from an angle so you can see how the plunger is painted in iridescent fingernail polish. From certain angles it has more presence and color than it seems to have when you stand directly in front of the canvas. It’s kind of a corny effect, I know, but fingernail polish is simply fun that way.

I like “Untitled” by Alma Chaney.

Am I understanding this correctly? “It’s Inside You” Jason Driskill, 72″ x 48″ is divided horizontally into two frames? You only showed the top part in your previous blog. Didn’t I say that my title was “The Invisible Mirror”? That would be compatible with “It’s Inside You” although I think you are looking at something more complicated than what we generally think of as a reflection.

Robert