First Catch Your Self

Hey, there's a National Self-Portrait Prize.

We are reminded of

First Catch Your Hare : 

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy

by Hannah Glasse (1747)

      

It's such a well known phrase, but...

Ian Mayes, writing in The Guardian, quotes Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable as stating "First catch your hare. This direction is generally attributed to Hannah Glasse, habit-maker to the Prince of Wales, and author of The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy (1747). Her actual directions are, 'Take your Hare when it is cas'd, and make a pudding...' To 'case' means to take off the skin" [not 'to catch']; Mayes notes further that both the Oxford English Dictionary and The Dictionary of National Biography discuss the attribution. (Wikipedia)

Oh! First skin your hare!

Such a curious notion, a Self-Portrait, even more so a National Self-Portrait Competition. A challenging one, we'd have thought. First, catch your self!

First Skin Your Self : 

The Art of Self-Portraiture Made Plain 
and Easy

by Invited Artists (UQ 2015)

Consider : Philosophy of self
             


Consider : Basis for Competitive Self Assessment

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