Ms. Boym, a native New Yorker, was worried about her portrait for this article.
More specifically, we make wire sculptures and multimedia masks, collages and self-portraits, worry dolls and letters to our future selves.
Sure, the new season is brain-bleedingly complicated and periodically segues into extended, Stan Brakhage style psychedelic interludes that involve glowing bowling balls with Laura Palmer's senior portrait inside, but worry not Kyle MacLachlan, the Twin Peaks star and face of Dale, Dougie, and Evil Coop promises "everything will make sense".
Do you worry at all about the intimate portrait of you that the government, or some other snoop, might be able to piece together with access to all this data?
"There are times when you run screaming, telling somebody, 'You can't put those hot television lights up against the portrait of Washington!' You worry about someone spilling a drink on something.
In 1992, people worried that the photographer Sally Mann's portraits of her naked children amounted to child pornography; 12 years earlier, ads showing a 15-year-old Brooke Shields packed into a pair of Calvin Klein jeans provoked the same concern.
Similarly toying with tone is the cover art for The Worry, a composite portrait of the three band members as one person.
The Electoral Commission is worried the current craze for smart phone self-portraits, as demonstrated above by the prime minister, will threaten the secrecy of the ballot.
During an interview with The Scotsman last month, Oates was asked whether she worried about ruffling feathers with her warts-and-all portrait of President Wilson.
The genre scenes and portraits, in which Sweerts did not have to worry about monumental groupings of figures, are the most vivacious works in the show.
