Travis LeRoy Southworth
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Work from Detouched.
Spend some time on Southworth’s website, pay particular attention to his video work.
“My recent series of work Detouched is a collection of abstract portraits. Created from the physical “flaws” that define us—wrinkles, moles, blemishes, and stray hairs—which are often removed from commercial portraits. The new work shows little reference to the original photographs and instead become minimalist abstract drawings that play with the definition of portraiture. When printed on digital photo paper, the tiny markings retain their photographic quality upon close inspection.” – Travis LeRoy Southworth