Self Portrait
In collaboration with Kaiser Permanente San Diego’s Physician Wellness Committee, health professionals were invited to consider self-portrait beyond the selfie: the doctor as witness, ego, sanctity, and self.
LOS/NR is excited to introduce our first Physician Invitational exhibition organized in collaboration with the Physician Wellness Committee of Kaiser Permanente San Diego. We have invited health professionals to submit works in any art forms and mediums expressing what self portrait means to them, using any representation that expresses or references who they are, not necessarily limited to a selfie.
There has been a belief that what the doctor says or does is godly. The care, the advice, the ability a doctor has over their patients is similar to what an above divinity has over its people, with powerful insights into the human body workings, mind and soul reading prowess; there is no need for words, questions or doubts - the almighty has absolute knowledge and wisdom. Other cultures in the world still keep this belief - and some doctors, at times, seem to fadedly cross into the realm of sanctity. Egos swell into bubbles and the perception of self transforms. This shows brings this into observation, subtly, from the smallest egos to the ones giant.