serial faces: media cuts

serial faces: media cuts explores the possibilities of de-limiting the public manipulation of symbols in the information / computer age. I use current newspaper images and text to depict key figures in international politics. These are a play on how mass consumer culture is directed to understand the symbols it is presented with, in very specific ways.

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serial faces: to sir with love

To Sir, With Love takes the serial faces concept one step further. Digital images, stored as zeros and ones, serially, do not change or break down over time. Our iconic figures, and the connotations they carry, do. I wanted to construct a piece that would continue to be in process, and accentuate that fact, even after my own influence on it ended.

By using wax as the final medium for this re-presentation, I’ve introduced the aspect of time into a digital portrait of Sidney Poitier - a man whose fame comes from the time-based medium of film. Warm light projected onto the image has already begun to slowly melt, crack and shift its appearance, leaving only traces of what once was, or what we once believed his image to be. This is a much closer approximation of how we “see,” as embodied beings, in relation to time.

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