About 3 Boys

During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, Alisa Duda decided to improve her artistic skills by testing Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000 hour rule” suggesting that it takes this much time of “intensive practice to achieve mastery of complex skill, like playing violin,” or becoming a great artist. Questioning her true artistic self, Alisa decided to invest her time by experimenting with styles, ideas, techniques and mediums while having one common element, a reference picture of her late uncle Jura with two of his friends. Alisa never met Jura, but she always had an intense longing for her lost uncle and sadness for the life he didn’t get to live, so she gave him a “second life.” Thus began the well-loved series of 3 Boys’ portraits peppered with slight humor. Unexpectedly, the short experiment grew into a long series that kept challenging Alisa’s creativity for three years.