After Scotch Tapehere is the new personal project by photographer Wes Naman! With this new series entitled “Rubber Band Portraits“, the photographer offers this time a new gallery of horrors with portraits of musicians from Albuquerque, twisted and deformed by elastic rubber bands... Do you remember Scotch Tape Series?
Barcelona-based artist Borja Martinez crushes watercolour pigments and turns them into amazing portraits. He begins with a vector image printed on a piece of paper and cuts out pieces of the face to create a template. Next, he crumbles the rainbow colored pigments onto paper with his hands, allowing only some to pass through while the rest land on the template and are tossed aside. Once finished, he lifts the template up revealing a clean and final portrait underneath that plays on positive and negative spaces.
New York artist Michel Mapes creates elaborate specimen boxes by dissecting photographs and then compartmentalizing individual fragments within plastic bags, glass vials, magnifiers, in gelatine capsules and on insect pins. The boxes exist in an uncanny area between photography and sculpture, functioning both as portraits and as fascinating scientific canvases that make you question the logic behind the organization of each piece.