Carrying on from my initial play with the portrait photographs I rather stumbled across this style of merging my friends faces together by playing with their faces. By capturing their faces in numerous expressions and from a number of directions I'm able to artistically merge the faces together and create this hilarious yet disturbing imagery. The whole project now revolves around four people, including myself, and the faces made on that one day.
The four images on the far left are the original faces (Mike top, then Eric, then Nick and then Myself), and the proceeding images to their right are either their own faces mixed over each other or mixed with another face. For example the top left photograph (Mikey) and the image directly to the right is a face made up of Mikey mixed with Nick, yet a more disturbing and realistic image is the next one along, created only using Mikey.
I really like this style of working, it is different to what I usually produce and it makes me laugh and cringe quite a bit - and if you can't enjoy your work then why bother doing it? Art is a reaction and I am quite excited by the reactions this work should hopefully command.
The next step is to degrade the imagery, and play with the textures to tie in the previous work. I initially think that they represent mugshot style photographs with a low-fi approach that fits contemporary artwork and mirrors a type of screen print work seen by Warhol etc. Working in black and white may alter the contrasts and give the images a new dimension (see below) - perhaps photocopying and degrading them through the half tone could be interesting.
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