22″x30″ 2012. “Excised #3″ is part of a larger series of deleted historical portraits. I am interested in the relationship of the depicted image and what message it is trying to convey to the viewer. By removing the recognizable figure and reinserting the figure’s regalia, the portrait becomes less about the sitter but what that sitter represents. In this context the role of portrait is less about the historical accuracy of the person or the preservation of memory and more about the sociopolitical systems they epitomize. The image is a hand painted and erased digital ink jet print on rives BFK that is 22′ x 30”.