“What does Troy’s face now represent?” He asked. So, metaphorically speaking, the soup has ceased being soup. “I’ve done it enough where it no longer is me,” Wandzel continued. “I basically painted self-portraits, and this is how my mind works, until I’m no longer interested. “So one day I woke up and didn’t paint a self-portrait: Didn’t even notice,” he went on to say. “The next day I didn’t paint a self-portrait again. I just didn’t need it anymore. And that was it.” Wandzel was frequently philosophical during our nearly two-hour conversation at his studio. He became particularly thoughtful after I agreed to be the subject of a painting, which he worked on as we talked.