THE SERIAL PORTRAIT
The Serial Portrait - 20" x 24" and 36" x 48" - Image transfers, acrylic medium and wooden boards.
The Serial Portrait draws from Google Art Project, a digital platform launched in 2011, featuring images from global museums of their collections. In 2013 when its popularity surged and image quality enhanced, I felt compelled to utilize this new art-experiencing platform, as source material. I collected nine high-resolution images of artworks depicting a physical interaction between two naked men. I found a connection in the concealed identities and the masked nature of the physical gesture.
Ten years later, these became the source material while employing image transfer, a craft technique that allows ink to move from paper to wood. This analog collaging mirrored Photoshop's essence, as I am physically cutting, copying, and pasting the ink of an image. Printed images of body parts made from different times and mediums now come together as a consistent yet evolving self-portrait series, reflecting the mutable nature of identity.
