Connie No. 2 

Eugene Feldman created 'Connie No. 2', a portrait rendered with abstract expressionist strokes, a style that speaks of raw emotion and subconscious drives. The deconstructed face hints at the psychological explorations of identity so prevalent in the 20th century. Think of the fragmented visages in Picasso's cubist portraits, where multiple perspectives converge. Similarly, Feldman's Connie embodies the self as a shifting, multi-layered entity. The dripping lines evoke the 'dripping' technique employed by Jackson Pollock, yet here, it's not pure abstraction but a means to dismantle and rebuild the human form. This technique channels primal emotions, engaging viewers on a visceral level, tapping into shared human experiences of fragmentation and reconstruction. Consider how these deconstructions mirror our own internal struggles, the way we piece ourselves together from fragments of memory and experience. The subconscious made visible. This motif of the fragmented self, seen across cultures and centuries, reflects our ongoing quest to understand the human condition.