Christian, 2009 [from "Faint"]
© Erik Dalzen
Erik Dalzen updated his website with some new work – a nice series of portraits, appropriately titled Faint. Erik writes about the project:
Portraiture, whether articulated through paint, sculpture or photography, creates an enduring likeness of an individual. This series presents an alternate purport, highlighting mortality by negating the sitter. The physicality of the fog engulfs the figure, subdues the color, flattens the lighting and obscures resemblance – in effect it is an erasure of the subject. The resulting imagery is an antithetical representation of the portrait.
My favorite above.
3 Comments
September 22, 2009 – 4:47 pm
I LOVE THIS SERIES OF PORTRAITS. BRILLIANT!
September 22, 2009 – 6:29 pm
Paul Graham, but portraits. Just because a technique’s been done, doesn’t mean it’s been fully explored.
September 25, 2009 – 12:31 pm
I wonder if he’s Mormon.