Face and Body Project in 'Crossing theDateline'  Art Exhibition at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 2017

I also uses fuses found images, digital manipulation and a layering effect to simulate large-scale square portraits. I am interested in the concept of superficiality, and by contrast, the glorified teachings of Lord Buddha. Our physical bodies are but a representation of real time, from aging wrinkles to unwanted fat to thinning hair. 

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Digital photographic composites of hair and skin, in some cases magnified and in others obscured, are collaged into faces of men and women and mounted with a layer of plexiglass on the surface. The sheets of plexiglass, bolted with silver right onto the faces, contain yet another layer of printed images on them. It is the inches of space between the box images and plexiglass that create a pixilation or optical build-up of each portrait. The resulting layered faces of varying ethnicities and physical traits are representative of diversity, from each individual to the group as a whole. Nails, hair, teeth and skin are broken apart and reassembled. By fragmenting and transforming the face and body, I draws emphasis to the textures and fabrics that make up our atomic structure. Skin is no longer attached to gender or beauty or even humanity. In Buddhism, this metaphorical and almost scientific contemplation has the ability to free us of human identity, revealing ‘non-self’ or the ‘absence of separate self’. This pertains to the notion that no permanent soul exists in a being. If anything, we are offered a chance to surreally examine void of racial divisions and societal standards.