Archive of the Face

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This charcoal portrait series is my reponse to Nazi- Era eugenics. It even goes as far as to question racial profiling and how the face becomes a specimen. Even having studied and taught the cannon of facial proportions in the context pf portraiture implicates me in the process of reducing a face into an object to categorize and judge. 

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Charcoal was used in concentration camps on scraps of paper as prisoners would draw eachother. To prove they did exist. This stands testament to out human need to draw eachothers faces.

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The  18"x24" charcoal drawings are of family members and overlaid with vellum and small adhesive dots and plumb lines over major anatomical landmarks. Viewers are encouraged to lift the vellum.

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