2025 Kennedy Prize Catalogue

149 | Why can’t I see it | Jenna Pickering | $25000 | Self Portrait – Oil painting on used paint palette.

I’m not beautiful. I dont feel it. Not to say I dont believe in beauty. Its everywhere age, scars, greying hairs. Sticks, leaves, rubbish. My dirty palette. But like most. I can’t see it in me. I use art to show myself, my worth. But lifes too short not to see ourselves. Perfect as we are. If I can see it in others, there Ill learn to see it in me.