Artwork / Private Masks / Tim Brandvold (Funeral Director)

painted portrait of white man
Gwenn Seemel
Tim Brandvold (Funeral Director)
2005
acrylic on canvas
17 x 21 inches

We bury our dead.

It’s harder to find a funeral director willing to sit for a portrait than you might imagine. I’m grateful for Tim’s courage. As with all of my series, from Mutually Beneficial to Empathetic Magic, I can’t do the work I do without the help of my subjects.