Most pictures are minimalist collages that take images of glamorous men and women, some movie stars, some in fact actual film stills, and montage them, often ever-so-slightly altering them, but to great effect. A beauty becomes a curious monster with eyes fanned out (very bottom); two faces are joined with only one perfect meeting place (below); silhouettes obscure an image but instead of a black shadow, the silhouettes is a second face that fits into the first one like a puzzle with the wrong picture. My favourite images were the portraits with a wide square cut out. Some, like the above, give an almost surreal telescopic perspective into the mind of the subject - a picture perfect waterfall or a tunnel into the vacant distance. Others leave the square blank, a Tabula Rasa or blank slate where the viewer can project their formulation of the subject's thoughts or what might be happening in a scene or what a person's eyes might look like and signify, into the gaping hole that demands to be filled.
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