graphite & putty eraser/20x30cm
source: 2nd generation 8x enlarged B&W p/copy from original reproduction in 'Times 2' 03/03/09
Continuing the drawings processed from images of Milan Fashion Week, again divested of their ostensible subject matter the refocussed re-mediations are open to alternative interpretations & projections through their concentration on the catwalk models' faces & the masks of the conventional expressions they wear.
As a post-script, this image – being a compendium of photographs of the beautiful people from the Milan & Paris Fashion Weeks – is to be found illustrating this article from Friday’s Guardian, on the subject of the real raison d’etre of such events being not the catwalk exhibition of the clothing designs but, rather, the public ‘front row’ appearance of such figures attending them.
Interesting to observe the range of human facial expressions on view from the assembled spectators in relation & contrast to the conventional blank/solemn limitations of the models’ ‘masks’.
Soundtrack:
Gang of Four 'A Brief History of the Twentieth Century'
'Rufus Wainwright'
Portishead 'Third'
Black Box Recorder 'England Made Me'
Elliott Smith 'Either/Or'
And how topical, relevant & still viscerally, urgently vital do the Gang of Four sound at such times? 'Capital (It Fails Us Now)' & 'To Hell With Poverty' indeed: fabulous stuff.
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