Take the Gloves Off
Common Bitch (Self Portrait) - A gray bulldog-like head wearing a black-and-white ruff or collar stares forward against a brown background.

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Common Bitch (Self Portrait)

2025-04-11

Medium
acrylic on canvas
Size
approx. 11 × 8.5 in

Role: primary_artwork

Raw title: Common Bitch (Self Portrait)

Aliases: Common Bitch (Self Portrait), commonbitch

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Recall

The dog-suited figure is funny, formal, and abject at once, turning self-portraiture into insult and costume. The blank stare and stiff collar make the animal seem both domesticated and humiliated, like a mascot for self-recognition through degradation.

Song Pair

The Voidz - Business Dog

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Source

source filename: commonbitch.heic
site image: art-056-common-bitch-self-portrait.jpg

Tags

Visible

figure 52animal 20resolve 14tie 10cartoon 19portrait 40identity 22

Colors

grayorange / brown

Part of

Mask / Face / Symbol-PersonAnimal / Cartoon / Trickster

Connectedness #45 of 128

Manual Priority Evidence

  • dog (!!!)
  • suit (!!)
  • bow (!)
  • bitch (!)
  • pitbull (!)

Related Works

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Song Pairing: The Voidz - Business Dog

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Works Cited

  • Othello verified William Shakespeare