Very excited to share 3 new photos for a small portrait series I began over the weekend. It's an exploration of a few concepts that have begun to penetrate our portraits: the obfuscation of the subject's face and the tension it signifies between expectations and the persona (see Son of Man and Hannah for more on this theme), combined with archetypes of high fashion - the female nude used as a hanger for some ridiculous piece of haute couture. The fun of combining these two ideas is the use of common place materials as representatives of this idea - manila rope, plastic drop cloth, and red yarn. Each material presented its own unique challenge, but the red yarn was especially tedious. It required about a half a pound of yarn and an hour of wrapping to complete the headpiece. Well worth the effort though, for what I feel turned out to be some great photos.
