In the 1970s when an androgynous facial profile (starting below the eyes) became my passion, I would see this profile everywhere: in contours of trees, clouds, buildings, landscapes and beyond.
In my art, I could not stop creating this profile in every media, on every surface imaginable, with every art tool available to me.
These myriad experiments formed different categories for my series called Profiles which you can see here.
What prompted this investigation? Why below the eyes? Did I not want to be seen? My struggle at this time (I was in my late 20s) was with my sexuality and my womanhood.
© Linda Stein, 2019
ENCOUNTERS with Profiles
Vulnerability
View Stein's Profile series, and start a sketchbook in which you draw an image about something that has impacted how you perceive yourself. Identify elements in the drawing that become your rules or criteria for redrawing the image. Redraw the image many times, in different styles and media. Reflect on how your series of drawings make you feel in looking at them together. Return to looking at Stein's series and watching the videos in which Linda Stein discusses her Profile (Below the Eyes) series.