Project Description
Portrait of the Artist as a Monster
Abstraction & deconstruction of the self image. A Frankensteinian construction, compiled from approximately 48 Layers of small (masked out in FCP) chunks of body, face & room parts, from many dozens of disparate sources, all weaved together to make the self portrait seen. That was imposed upon the typing hands from an Old News Reel, to represent the artist, the ‘self’ creating the video, creating the ‘self’ as the video was made. Appropriated Found Object Media Repurposed.
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