'The image is an external two-dimensional object and exists independently, even if it is a photograph with a material link to the actual person in the image. Even a self-portrait, while apparently closer to the making subject, cannot avoid this externalisation and objectification of the self, where the self confronts itself as an other while in the process of fabrication. The making self partly constitutes itself through the presence of the image and also through the process of its making. Subjectivity, its construction and agency, as well as the ultimate impossibility of representing subjectivity, are embodied in portraits. For when the portrait is finished, both the artist and the sitter are different people. The portrait is (at best only part) of a subjectivity that is in the past.'
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