I never wanted anything more than to fit inside your head, 2023
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Part of my body of work Color, Balance, it continues with my use of digital remnants such as color layers, skin imperfections and adjustment masks removed from fashion photography as a base for artworks that I further manipulate in Photoshop. I use color as a spatial feature, shifting away the boundary of the body. Marks merge into odd appendages and disappear into a color field.
My artworks are profoundly informed from my professional work as a senior photo retoucher in the beauty industry, going on 20+ years now. This job or 'paid research' as I like to call it affords me both a way to support my art and a weird realm of artistic exploration.
I am especially interested in the life and transformation of a digital image in relationship to the cloud. In advertising a photograph can undergo hundreds of altercations to create an 'ideal' image with the purpose to gain your attention and sell something to you.
This work was sold as a NFT and can be viewed on SuperRare.