I forked paintbrushes between the fingers of my left hand, picked up my phone again with my right and snapped a selfie of my artist self. In Facetune, I softened my skin to a poreless sheen; I snatched my waistline, my jawline. I applied a grainy filter, to simulate the skin texture I’d erased, then arranged the edited image in the square of a new post. “The Artist’s Way,” I wrote for a caption.
