Tamar Bresge

The Roses In My Closet: Unfictions by Tamar Bresge

A collection of creative nonfiction essays, teasing though the experience of commissioning ten oil portraits, my relationships to my portraits, and my relationship with my painter. Written between October 2018 and March 2020.Performed in the gallery, in front of a salon-style installation of all ten portraits, the recited text is as ephemeral as the moment of each portrait sitting. While the text is as constant on the page as each likeness is locked in its painting, both readings and sittings are as inconstant and evolving as the moment of the person performing them.