Self-Portrait 

Here is the audio guide script for "Self-Portrait": Medi Wechsler Dinu created this self-portrait with oil on cardboard, resulting in a textured surface where brushstrokes are clearly visible. The choice of cardboard as a base material introduces a sense of immediacy. Unlike traditional canvas, it's an everyday material, challenging the preciousness often associated with fine art. The thick application of oil paint creates a tactile quality, almost sculptural in its density. The layering of colors and visible brushstrokes gives the work an energetic feel, documenting the artist’s process. There's a deliberate roughness here. Dinu’s approach emphasizes the labor involved in artmaking. By choosing these materials and techniques, Dinu blurs the boundaries between high art and the more accessible realms of craft. It invites us to consider art not just as a finished product, but as a record of the artist's hand and the materials they’ve chosen to work with.