I shot thousands of these images over a couple of years using my iPhone with the Hipstamatic app. I set it to randomize settings whenever I shook the phone, so I would snap a picture, shake, snap another, shake. Maybe three times. And then later, I would select a photo. Often I would shake the phone and shoot just once, and put the phone away without looking.
I was a headshot photographer for a long time, and I am only really interested in people’s heads. Bodies not so much. And this is reflected often in my artwork. There’s also something about mannequins, masks, puppets, statues and pictures of people in advertisements and store windows. These photos are from that interest. Non-human representation of humans. Plus an occasional pig.
Several hundred of these images were displayed in a solo show I put up in a cafe near where I live. For a month it was freak central at Sip This. I would go in and get a coffee, and then sit somewhere and watch people look up, see the walls covered with these images, and watch their reactions, which ranged from revulsion to delight. Eventually, most people found an image that they kept coming back to, as if it were calling their eyes. I loved watching people watch the “people” in the pictures. I didn’t sell a single thing, but I think it was my most successful show.
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