What is a face?
Think about what we mean by likeness in graphic representation.
Whether in paint, paper, photography, what we think we see in a passing cloud, on a burnt piece of toast or bagel.The human visage is compelling to all members of our specie.
Think in terms of likeness, distortion, plasticity and ?.
People are strange as Jim Morrison said and our depiction of them (us) deserves to be at least fresh.
Try a piece that questions human likeness, yet demands recognition as a human image.
I once saw an image of an owl drawn with a stick in the muddy interior wall of a Mississippian culture mound. It was more "owl" than any other picture of an owl I have ever seen.
What an inspiration! With a stick in mud! 1,500 years ago! Or the hands of ancient hunters in caves, made with fat and pigment, far more alive than the academic museum portraits of dead European noblility.
See you next week, John
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