The work invokes the symbolic weight of the number it takes as a title, thirty‑three. Known for its Kabbalistic significance, the place it holds in the Christian imagination, the numerological interpretations associated with it, and its peculiar mathematical properties, the number thirty‑three was also the artist’s age at the time this self‑portrait was made. The work is a visual reflection on life experience and inner states set against the fireworks ringing in the new year of 2011.
