A portrait not only documents our time, but the subject’s time as well. We are looking at the subject through the artist’s eyes, but what is the subject looking at? This is what intrigues the artist, Lois Keller, about portraiture. The creative mind of an audience has the potential to animate the subject’s perspective, and ask how they see the world at this time in their life. The moment captured is one of Keller’s 15 year old daughter, Gidget. She emerges from the velour curtains of the mall’s fitting room, looking for the perfect Homecoming dress. Energetic brush strokes are tamed with the reality of Gidget as she is now, and charged with the potential of her future, ever-evolving with the audience’s eye. The portrait’s location, The Fitting Room, incubates all of these possibilities, as a transitory and creative portal.