The Self-Portraits – I only wanted to create a nice, rather straight forward piece of music that would complement the amazing series of self-portraits that Van Gogh created. There are so many, and they capture not only how he looked at that particular moment in time but also the pain, and skepticism that he must have felt about the world around him. When you view the more than 30 self-portraits he crafted, you quickly realize that not a single one exists in which he is smiling and in many, his face is angled almost as if he was afraid to face himself or perhaps the world that did not yet understand and appreciate his genius.