untitled from The Beautiful Ones series. 2002.

the beautiful ones

2000 - 2002

In this series of photographs both black pop-star icons and family members, are physically worked over, mutating their original look. By manipulating the images through numerous photographic and printmaking processes, I eliminate the space between the famous and family.

This handling of the image creates a monotone world, in which photographic information is sometimes difficult to understand, and figures fade into a sea of color. Identities are lost while fashion, postures and attitudes sit on the surface of the image. These images are a physical representation of how I have learned about beauty, and how memory intervenes in the understanding and interpreting of that message.

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