“Art is spending 24 hours a day pouring your heart into something left for the judgment of others and still, I can think of nothing else I would rather do.”
Matt Held takes images of social media users and transforms them into oil painting-portraitures.
By sourcing subjects from a digital city, his goal is to question our assumptions about identity, how we shape our online selves for others to see.
In the process, his work transforms the physical and digital self into something more contextual, and well, more fun.
Enjoy, then visit his gallery at the bottom of the page…
