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Jay Wilson’s “Weaver,” combines his hand-woven tapestries and an image he drew of himself.

Schaefer Portrait Challenge / From the first imprinting of infancy to the constancy of long-term intimacy, interacting with someone (even oneself) face-to-face remains one of the most immediate and complex acts of human communication.

Portraits–those works of art that mediate the face-to-face relationship–create a meeting space that we can revisit again and again, a space of literal representation with emotional and psychological overtones. The compelling nature of portraiture has been the focus of the triennial Schaefer Portrait Challenge, begun on Maui in 2003 and now, in its third cycle, shown on Oahu for the first time.....

Read more at -  http://honoluluweekly.com/entertainment/2009/06/face-to-face-2/