ME MYSELF AND I
Howard Mason, Me, Myself and I
Oil on board, 2021
71 X 46 cm
In Me, Myself and I, Howard Mason creates a deeply personal meditation on time, identity, and continuity. The painting depicts the artist in three stages of life — as infant, middle-aged man, and elder — woven together in a tender domestic scene. The baby, held between two adult figures, gazes toward a hexagonal mirror that reflects not only its own face but also the aged self it will one day become. This layered composition bridges generations within a single moment, suggesting both the fragility and permanence of selfhood. Mason’s meticulous realism and quiet emotional charge evoke the passage of time as something both intimate and universal — a reflection on life’s circular nature and the inevitability of becoming one’s own past, present, and future.
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