Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Cecilia paredes | http://ceciliaparedes.net
“Born in Lima, Peru. Currently lives and works between Philadelphia, PA USA and San José, Costa Rica. Throughout her art career, she has focus on topics such as the links between human beings and the natural world and subjects of a more humanly intimate concern such as relocation, migration and adaptation. Cecilia Paredes explores various artistic disciplines to produce her work. Apart from drawing, she does performances that are registered in photography or what she calls ‘photo performances’ .Cecilia trans-crosses a symbiotic path between Man and Nature and in doing so, she reassures her identity and the essential link of all forms in nature. This is how the artist re-elaborates her work attiring with memory her corporeal existence in a language in which there are no boundaries.”
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Photo Friday with Alma Haser’s Cosmic Surgery
By superimposing copies of her models’ faces made into origami on their original portraits, Alma Haser creates interesting, although unsettling, images. The London artist creates these cubist-like images by printing multiple copies of her subject’s face, making them into origami, and then shooting the original photograph with the origami placed on top. This method allows Haser to bring her photography into another dimension. She is not only capturing or representing her models, but completely recreating them.Although in the artist’s statement Haser never explicitly describes the play on words and relationship between “cosmic surgery” and “cosmetic surgery,” the viewer can imagine a future dystopia where manipulation and ideals of beauty, now unrecognizable to us, could exist. She writes, ” There is something quite alien about the manipulated faces, as if they belong to some futuristic next generation.”
For the entire series please go here.
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Berkshire Hosiery advertisement, illustration by Rudy Garcia
