“This exhibition presents a selection of the portraits I made as part of an extended project. I was seeking to capture the sitter’s face at a particular moment in time; the point at which they are fully in the moment but not yet aware of nor reacting to the presence of another person.

We all possess a variety of faces that we present to others. Each of these faces projects one of the persona we create for that interaction; student, parent, employee, spouse, friend, patient, etc. These faces can be thought of as disguises. They address the expectations of the other person and the role we assume to meet those expectations. But beneath them all is the real Me. The person devoid of artifice. Absent the external stimuli of another person, we revert to a totally private face, one we reserve for ourselves alone. We are aware of it only vaguely, as if through a haze. It is the Me I Seldom Share.”

- Don Parsisson, February 2020